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Leroy Coleman Jr., 29, was shot and killed after an incident at the Holiday Express Motel on West Charles Page Boulevard in west Tulsa on the night of November 18, 2016. Coleman lived and worked at the motel as the maintenance man and shared Room 102 with his wife, Chanel. A dispute in the adjacent Room 103 involved James Jay Mahdavi, Rodney McGee and others; Mahdavi left, returned armed with a .22-caliber handgun, and shot McGee outside in the parking lot. As Leroy pulled back the curtain in Room 102 to see what had happened, Mahdavi walked along the building and fired through the window, the bullet striking Leroy in the neck. McGee was pronounced dead shortly after midnight; Leroy was taken to hospital and died two days later.

Surveillance footage and multiple witness identifications connected James Mahdavi to the shootings. He was located hiding in an attic space above a shed on November 25 and taken into custody. The case went to trial and resulted in convictions for first-degree murder with life sentences ordered to run consecutively.

Did anyone who stayed at that motel around November 18, 2016, see or hear anything that could add detail to what happened that night?