On the evening of March 11, 2023, a dispute inside a motel room at the Mustang Inn on the North Freeway in Houston, Texas, ended the life of 31-year-old Robin Jay Strong Jr. Strong, a Black male, had arrived at the motel with another man and entered a room where several other people were gathered. An altercation inside the room led to Strong being shot.

Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrived around 10 p.m. and found Strong with a gunshot wound; he was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. Investigators sought the man who had come with Strong and other people who were in the room, and asked the public to help identify a male witness and a female captured on motel surveillance. On April 14, 2023, authorities arrested 18-year-old Duley Tyrek Blake and charged him with Strong’s murder; Blake was already jailed on unrelated weapons charges at that time.

If anyone was in or near that motel room on March 11, 2023, or recognizes the people seen on surveillance, please contact investigators with information.