Xavier Trent Igus, a 31-year-old man from Columbus, Georgia, spent the evening of Sunday, November 16, 2025, at the Budgetel Inn & Suites on Victory Drive in south Columbus, a roadside hotel that had already seen more than its share of violence in recent years. Sometime after 7 p.m., the ordinary hum of traffic and neon lights was broken by gunfire. Inside or just outside the hotel, Xavier was struck by bullets that left him gravely wounded, turning what had begun as a routine night into a scene
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