Second suspect arrested in fatal shooting at Fort Worth motel on North Main
Fort Worth police have arrested a second suspect in a 2024 killing at a motel on North Main Street, according to police records and an arrest warrant affidavit.
In July, police had asked for the public’s help in locating Demond Eugene Williams, wanted on a murder charge in the November 2024 killing of Arturo Clemente, the Star-Telegram previously reported. In March of this year, police arrested Williams’ alleged co-conspirator, 22-year-old Kayley Madjory Rojas, near Atlanta.
Williams, Rojas and Clemente were together inside room No. 5 at the Ranch Motel, 3620 North Main St., when the shooting occurred on the night of Nov. 17, according to the affidavit.
Security footage from the motel shows “two gunshots” go through the door of the motel room and a woman exiting the room moments later, detectives wrote in the affidavit.
Moments later, a man left the room and got into a black Nissan Altima, later identified by detectives as belonging to Rojas, according to the affidavit. The man then drove the car away from the motel, and the vehicle was later abandoned. Surveillance video from the area where the car was abandoned shows a man and a woman getting into a vehicle registered to Williams, police said.
A struggle appeared to have taken place inside the room, a detective wrote in the affidavit. The detective found that Clemente was wearing a GPS ankle monitor and that there was a tattoo gun in the room. Williams had also been wearing an ankle monitor, and officials with the monitoring company told police he cut off the monitor after the shooting, according to the affidavit.
Additionally, location data from the monitor placed Williams at the motel during the time of the murder, police said.
The motel’s manager identified Williams as having been at the motel on multiple occasions, including on the night of the killing, police said. Relatives of Rojas’ confirmed to police that she and Williams were in a dating relationship and had a child together.
Kayley Rojas posted a $150,000 bond in April and is not in jail, according to online records. Demond Williams was being held in Tarrant County Jail on Thursday, with bond set at over $1 million on charges of murder, aggravated assault and evading arrest.
This story was originally published August 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM.
