Zemal Fuentes, 27, from Thomaston, was fatally shot on the evening of Saturday, October 14, 2017, in Albany, Georgia. The shooting happened about 7:23 p.m. outside a room at the Quality Inn on North Westover Boulevard during a visit for Albany State University homecoming. Witnesses reported two or three shots and a white Chevrolet Impala fleeing the scene. Fuentes was found with a gunshot wound to his upper body, taken to a hospital, and pronounced dead.

Police said the incident arose from a drug transaction that turned violent. The white Impala was found the next day on the Albany State campus. Within 72 hours officers arrested three people: 19-year-old David Quimby and 21-year-old Courtland Hughley on murder charges, and 21-year-old Kedravious Web, a companion of Fuentes, on a tampering-with-evidence charge.

If anyone has information about what happened at the Quality Inn that night or knew Zemal Fuentes, please share what you know.