Bobby Gwin was 25 when he was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds in a room at the Deluxe Inn on Broadway Drive in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in the late hours of November 29, 2017. Hattiesburg Police responded to reports of a shooting and pronounced him dead at the scene.

Investigators identified 34-year-old Allen Russell as a person of interest and took him into custody. Surveillance footage from the motel reportedly shows Russell entering Gwin’s room and later fleeing while dropping a pistol. Russell was charged with Gwin’s murder and faced additional drug charges, including possession of marijuana with intent to distribute; bond was set at $250,000 for the murder charge and $40,000 for the drug counts.

At a four-day trial in April 2022, a fellow inmate testified that Russell had admitted killing Gwin, saying he had arranged to meet someone online who turned out to be a man and that the encounter went wrong. The jury found Allen Russell guilty of first-degree murder and he was sentenced to life in prison. Did anyone who knew Bobby or was in that Hattiesburg neighborhood in 2017 see or hear anything that could add detail to what happened?