Liquorian Traveon Robertson, 31, was fatally shot on June 3, 2024, while sitting in his car at the Diamond Inn in the 8900 block of the Gulf Freeway in southeast Houston. The shooting happened about 1:15 a.m.; investigators say a male assailant wearing a red and white clown mask, a dark blue hoodie, pants, and black sneakers with white soles approached Robertson’s vehicle and fired more than ten rounds before fleeing northbound on the Gulf Freeway service road. Robertson, a father of five, was pronounced dead at the scene.

His mother, Veronica Robertson, said this was the second son she has lost to gun violence and that she also lost three brothers to similar acts of violence since 1993. The Houston Police Department has not identified a motive and the suspect remains at large; surveillance images of the masked gunman have been released. Anyone with information is asked to contact the HPD Homicide Division at 713-308-3600 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.

Did anyone in the Diamond Inn or the surrounding area see a vehicle or person on the service road that morning?