On the evening of November 24, 2020, 48-year-old Lamark Andrae Williams, a Black man known to friends and family as P-nut or Nut P and a native of Petersburg, Virginia, was found dead in a room at the Super 8 Motel on Candlers Mountain Road in Lynchburg. Investigators determined he had sustained a single gunshot wound to the chest.

Police identified 24-year-old Ishmael Bailey of Richmond as a suspect and took him into custody at the scene. Bailey initially gave a version of events claiming self-defense after an alleged sexual advance, but his account contained inconsistencies and he later admitted to a different series of events. Authorities say Bailey went to Williams’s room intending to exchange sex for money, threatened Williams with a firearm when Williams refused to pay, and shot him when Williams continued to refuse.

Bailey was charged with first-degree murder, use of a firearm in the commission of a murder, and attempted robbery. Did anyone who knew Lamark Williams notice contacts or disputes in Lynchburg around late November 2020 that could shed more light on his movements?