Michael Harvey Cox was 31 when he was shot and killed in the early morning hours of April 2, 2017. He was at the America’s Best Value Inn on TV Road in Florence, South Carolina, when the Florence County Coroner’s Office later confirmed his identity and cause of death.

In the weeks after the shooting, investigators from the Florence County Sheriff’s Office developed a suspect. On April 24, 2017, 38-year-old Merrick Jason Matthews of Darlington was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service together with the Darlington County and Florence County Sheriff’s Offices and charged with Cox’s murder. Matthews was booked into the Florence County Detention Center to await a bond hearing. The motive for the shooting was not released.

Did anyone in the Florence or Darlington area have information about Michael Cox or the circumstances at the motel that morning?