On the evening of March 22, 2016, a planned confrontation over a drug-related debt at the Midway Motel on North Snelling Avenue in St. Paul ended in a double homicide. Dominique Charles Moss, 23, was staying in Room 15 when three men arrived to confront Nicholas Bennett Tousley about money; Moss was not the primary target but was killed in the shooting that followed. Surveillance video captured the suspects and their dark-colored Lexus as they converged on the room, the shooting, and the escape.

Investigators identified Ronald L. Conway, 31, Cass Cordel O’Neal, 31, and Eric John Benner, 30, as the men involved; a fourth, 36-year-old man was also arrested. Benner admitted to driving the group to the motel and cooperated in identifying the others. O’Neal was identified as the shooter. Conway was convicted by a jury on counts of aiding and abetting second-degree murder and received a lengthy prison term; the court record notes Moss’s mother described his aim to become a police officer.

Was anyone in the neighborhood that night who remembers seeing the dark-colored Lexus or the men near the Midway Motel?