In the early hours of May 13, 2017, a gathering at an Extended Stay America hotel on Bluestone Road in Alexandria, Virginia, turned deadly. Desmond A. Roseboro, 28, was attending a party following a memorial service for his cousin when an altercation erupted and shots were fired. Roseboro and two women, aged 21 and 35, were struck and taken to area hospitals. The women survived with non-life-threatening injuries; Roseboro’s wounds were critical and he died on May 14, 2017.

Roseboro was remembered by family and friends as driven, polite, and kind; he had graduated from T.C. Williams High School and worked in the heating and air conditioning trade. Alexandria police identified 19-year-old Demarcus Robertson as a suspect and later obtained a grand jury indictment for murder, aggravated malicious wounding and firearm offenses. Robertson was arrested and tried; a jury convicted him of voluntary manslaughter in Roseboro’s death and of two counts of unlawful wounding for the other victims. The jury recommended a combined sentence totaling 20 years.

If anyone attended the memorial gathering or was at the Extended Stay America that night and has information about the events leading up to the shooting, please share what is known.