On the morning of March 8, 2024, 39-year-old Jonathan Michael Jacobs was fatally shot at the Howard Johnson Motel on North Central Avenue in Staunton, Virginia. The shooting was reported to Staunton Police at 9:55 a.m., and officers searched for the person responsible.

Within about an hour, a suspect who had fled the scene was located and arrested. The person taken into custody was identified as 35-year-old Rodney Dwayne Phillips of Staunton; he was charged with second-degree murder and the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and held without bond at Middle River Regional Jail.

Did anyone in the Staunton area see or hear anything that morning at the Howard Johnson Motel that could help explain what happened?