Update: Police release details on Knights Inn shooting suspect, victim

Sunday afternoon, police arrested 30-year-old Antoine Jefferson and charged him with the shooting death of Everett Lawrence Harper at a South Bend motel on Saturday.

31-year-old Adrian Evans was arrested Saturday evening in connection with this investigation on preliminary suspicion of Assisting a Criminal. His arrest is under review by prosecutors, and no formal criminal charges have been filed against him.

Police say that Evans was in a hotel room with Harper and Jefferson when the shooting occurred, along with Shakisha Martin and Billy Ray Binion. Binion told police that Jefferson and Harper got in an argument, during which Jefferson pulled out a gun and told Harper to stop speaking. Binion says Harper continued talking, and then Jefferson fired multiple shots, killing him. Binion explained that he, Jefferson and Evans fled the hotel room.

Shakisha Martin described a similar scene and added to police that all four people in the hotel room are related.

Police also interviewed Anthony Jefferson, Antoine's father. He says that he spoke to his son after the shooting, who told him that Harper was drunk in the hotel room and wouldn't stay quiet.

Antoine Jefferson is expected to appear before a Magistrate for his arraignment on Monday afternoon at 1:00 p.m.

Police are looking for two people who shot and killed a man at South Bend Knights Inn on Saturday.

The shooting happened at around 2:36 p.m. at the motel in the 3200 block of Lincoln Way West.

Police said one man was shot and killed. His name hasn't been released, since his family hasn't been notified.

Police said they've identified the two men they're looking for, but they don't need the public's help in finding them just yet.

"We was just in our room I was playing zombies just chillin' and then I heard some gunshots," said witness Jada Hunt. "It was nothing major, but we thought it was hammers."

The gunshots went off in one of the motel rooms across the way from Hunt's.

"There was a vehicle speeding toward the exit," said James Yunker, a motel employee and witness. "It slowed down almost to a stop then took off in front of another car and almost caused an accident."

Police found the man dead when they arrived. They said they also have evidence of people leaving the scene immediately after the incident.

"If it looks like it's going to escalate into violence, leave," said Commander Tim Corbett of the St. Joseph County Homicide Unit. "What could have been the cause of this that's so important that you have to kill somebody over? The answer's nothing."

Corbett stressed that it's time people take responsibility for their actions.

"Stop blaming everyone for your own actions, pull your own boot straps up and be a man," Corbett said. "If you have to settle with violence then go hit each other in the mouth, that's it. You don't have to kill each other."

Corbett said he feels that this kind of crime is something society expects and is used to seeing and it needs to stop.

"This is a black person being killed by another black person," Corbett said. "Where's the outrage with that? Where's the outrage? I just don't see it, it's become like it's normal. That's what's to be expected, that's what we see all the time, that's what we're used to."

The incident is still under investigation and police are calling it a homicide at this time.