Jacqueline Marie Castel, 54, of Flinton, Pennsylvania, was found unresponsive from a gunshot wound to the head in a hotel room at the Quality Inn on South Hughes Boulevard in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, on June 26, 2021. She was taken to Sentara Albemarle Hospital with life-threatening injuries and did not survive. Castel was a U.S. Army veteran with more than 22 years of service and later worked at Bolling Air Force Base and the Van Zandt VA Medical Center in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

Elizabeth City police opened a homicide investigation that led to the arrest of 52-year-old John Randall Landry of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. Landry was charged with murder and was held without bond on that charge; he was also served with a Fauquier, Virginia fugitive warrant and given a $100,000 bond on that warrant. His first court appearance was set for June 29, 2021.

Funeral services with military honors were held on July 9, 2021, at Matthew R. Decort Funeral Home in Portage, Pennsylvania. The department has asked anyone with information about the shooting to come forward — did anyone in the area see or hear anything relevant that night?