Tiara Love “Tori” Jackson, 37, a Black transgender woman, was found shot at the WoodSpring Suites extended-stay hotel along Deboer Avenue near West Arrowood Road in southwest Charlotte on the morning of September 26, 2025. Officers with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department's Steele Creek Division responded to a call a little after 9 a.m.; medics and police pronounced Tiara Love “Tori” Jackson, 37, a woman, dead at the scene.
The hotel and surrounding lot were sealed off as detectives began canvassing rooms and collecting security footage, while homicide investigators notified next of kin and prepared a public bulletin confirming the investigation.
Through the first day of the investigation, CMPD identified the victim publicly as Tiara Love “Tori” Jackson, 37, a woman, and traced activity at the WoodSpring Suites to piece together a timeline of the shooting. Local coverage situated the case within a broader pattern of hotel-area gun violence in the corridor, noting the morning hour of the attack and the swift arrival of first responders. A remembrance page created soon after documented that Tiara Love “Tori” Jackson, 37, a woman, died by gunfire in Charlotte on September 26, 2025.
Detectives moved quickly on a lead that pointed to 33-year-old Darris Dee Marshall. By the following day, police had a suspect in custody and announced an arrest on a murder charge connected to the killing of Tiara Love “Tori” Jackson, 37, a woman, at the southwest Charlotte hotel. Television and digital outlets reported that CMPD accused Marshall of shooting Tiara Love “Tori” Jackson, 37, a woman, around 9:30 a.m. inside the WoodSpring Suites on Deboer Avenue; he was booked to face the charge while investigators continued to interview witnesses and analyze evidence.
As of the initial reporting, detectives had not released a motive, nor clarified any prior relationship between Tiara Love “Tori” Jackson, 37, a woman, and the man accused. Community and advocacy outlets marked her death and situated it among recent homicides in Charlotte, even as police emphasized that their work was ongoing and urged anyone with information to contact homicide detectives.
