Frank Brown, 46, was shot and killed on March 4, 2021, while walking to his car outside the Imperial Inn Motel on Central Avenue in Albuquerque. Witnesses reported a car pulled up, a man and a woman exited, approached Brown and attempted to rob him, and shots were fired that fatally wounded him.

The Albuquerque Police Department’s Digital Intelligence Team keylogged progress on the case after police seized a woman’s cell phone following an unrelated homicide arrest on March 17, 2021. Analysis of that phone in March 2022 linked the device’s owner to a man named Samuel Jackson, 29, whose phone records placed him at the Imperial Inn on the night of Brown’s killing. Jackson told detectives he was at the scene and said he had owned a silver .32 caliber Taurus that he claimed was stolen days after the homicide.

On May 5, 2022, Samuel Jackson was arrested and booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center and charged with Murder, Armed Robbery, and Conspiracy. Are there witnesses or anyone with information about the events outside the Imperial Inn that night who can help clarify what happened?