A second man has been arrested and charged with capital murder in the January 2019 fatal shooting of 44-year-old Terry Clark inside his Southwest Houston apartment, nearly seven years after the case first went cold. Andre Lamont Lewis Jr., 33, was booked into the Harris County Jail on September 9 after the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force took him into custody, following a Harris County grand jury indictment issued days earlier on September 3.
Clark was found dead inside his apartment at 6633 West Airport Boulevard just after 12:30 a.m. on January 29, 2019, according to the Houston Police Department. Witnesses in the complex reported hearing gunshots that night, and investigators say two Black male suspects were seen fleeing the victim's apartment in a white SUV. The address corresponds to Fondren Crossing Condominiums, a gated residential complex built in 1981 in the Brays Oaks district within the 77035 ZIP code, according to a Compass property listing.
In the weeks after the shooting, Houston Police Department homicide detectives said they believed the killing was motivated by robbery, and investigators released surveillance imagery of a person of interest along with the white getaway vehicle in hopes of generating leads.
A Six-Year Wait for the First Arrest
The case sat unresolved for years despite that early evidence. The break came in September 2025, when investigators identified Trevon Demitri Lewis, now 29, as a suspect and arrested him through a joint operation between the U.S. Marshals Service and HPD's South Gessner Patrol Division Crime Suppression Team. He was initially charged with murder before that charge was formally upgraded to capital murder as prosecutors developed additional evidence, and he is now charged in the 337th Criminal District Court.
Hoodline previously covered the search for a second suspect at that time, as HPD publicly appealed for help identifying the second man believed to be involved. Throughout the multi-year investigation, police and Crime Stoppers of Houston maintained public tip lines offering cash rewards and anonymity, a channel that has historically helped generate breakthroughs in older shooting cases, according to the Houston Stringer.
Second Arrest Closes Out a Years-Long Manhunt
That second suspect has now been identified as Andre Lamont Lewis Jr. He is charged with capital murder alongside Trevon Demitri Lewis in the 337th Criminal District Court, and his arrest by the Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force marks the resolution of a case that spanned more than six and a half years from the night of the shooting to the second indictment. The task force is a specialized interagency coalition operating in the Southern District of Texas that combines federal marshals with HPD officers and Harris County deputies specifically to track down high-violence fugitives.
The case remains under investigation by HPD Homicide Division detectives S. Spivey, R. Pemberton and T. Tyler, along with Sergeant C. Duncan. The incident is logged under case number 012296819, and anyone with additional information can contact the department's public affairs media line at 713-308-3280.
What Capital Murder Charges Mean for Both Men
Because the killing is alleged to have occurred during a robbery, both Trevon Demitri Lewis and Andre Lamont Lewis Jr. now face the state's most severe charge. Under Texas Penal Code sections 19.03 and 12.31, a capital murder conviction — such as a killing intentionally committed during a robbery — carries only two possible statutory penalties for adult defendants: life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, or the death penalty, according to the Barbieri Law Firm. Texas law eliminates parole eligibility entirely for adult capital murder convictions, leaving no middle-ground sentence available if either man is convicted.
The case's resolution also fits into a broader pattern within HPD's Homicide Division. The department's clearance rate had fallen to an internal low of 49% in 2020 before climbing to nearly 87% by late 2024 following an overhaul of case management procedures, according to the Houston Chronicle. Annual homicides citywide also declined for three straight years through 2024, dropping to 318 recorded homicides that year compared to 329 over the same period in 2023, per the same report.
It remains unclear whether Trevon Demitri Lewis and Andre Lamont Lewis Jr. are related, and investigators have not detailed what specific physical, forensic, or witness evidence ultimately allowed detectives to identify both men years after Clark's death. Both questions remain open as the case moves forward in Harris County court.
