On the evening of January 23, 2021, 33-year-old Alex Bernard Tolbert was found shot to death at the Budget Inn in Madison, Georgia. The shooting occurred at about 8:30 p.m., leaving Tolbert with multiple gunshot wounds; his body was discovered partially obstructing the entrance to the hotel room where he lived. Investigators recovered fourteen .22-caliber shell casings and three bullets from that room.

Investigators focused on Adrian Darnyell Weston as a person of interest because of a known history of conflict between him and Tolbert, including a May 2019 altercation in which Tolbert stabbed Weston and Tolbert was arrested. Witnesses on the day of the murder reportedly heard Weston say he intended to kill Tolbert and saw him leave a location carrying a gun. Shell casings recovered at a residence where Weston had been staying matched those from the motel room, and Weston left the state after the shooting, prompting a manhunt.

If anyone knew Tolbert’s movements on January 23, 2021, or has information about contacts between Tolbert and Weston around that time, please share what is known.