Christopher Lascase, 20, was fatally shot inside Room 212 at the Super 8 Motel in Brockton, Massachusetts, on the evening of October 23, 2020. Officers responding to multiple 911 calls found Lascase with apparent gunshot wounds; he was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital and pronounced dead.

Massachusetts State Police detectives assigned to the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office and Brockton Police led the investigation. It produced an arrest warrant for 22-year-old Dvante Bly-Mollenthiel of Brockton; he was taken into custody on October 25, 2020, and arraigned on a murder charge. Investigators also identified 39-year-old Valdir Rodrigues of Weymouth as having been present with Bly-Mollenthiel; police say the two men had gone to the motel to purchase drugs from Lascase.

A conviction and sentence have been reported in the case.