Eric Wayne Curtis, a 37-year-old Black man, was fatally shot at a motel on the 9700 block of North Freeway service road in Houston on June 29, 2021, at about 3 p.m. He was driven a few blocks south to a gas station at 9351 North Freeway, where paramedics pronounced him dead.

The Houston Police Department’s Homicide Division responded. On July 2, 2021, Derrick Thompson, a 41-year-old man, was arrested and charged with Curtis’s murder; the case was filed in the 232nd State District Court. Sergeant R. Montalvo and Detective E. Martinez were assigned to the investigation. Motive has not been disclosed.

Curtis is remembered by family and friends for his love of dancing, music, and water fights. Anyone with information about this homicide is asked to contact the HPD Homicide Division or Crime Stoppers.