Two men are charged in a July 2025 killing outside a Harris County bar. The video that broke it open sat for five months.

Two men are now charged with murder in a July 2025 killing outside a bar on Highway 6 in west Harris County. The surveillance video that both accounts credit with moving the case was not released until five months after the shooting.

Why it matters

This is a case that sat. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office worked it for fourteen months before the first charge, and the piece of evidence that circulated publicly did not circulate for the first five. Both men are charged, not convicted, and neither has a bond set.

By the numbers

July 15, 2025, just before 10:45 p.m.: the shooting outside My Bar, 5406 State Highway 6 North, near Bear Creek Village.
35: the age of Jay Young Jung, who was killed.
Five months from the killing to December 2025, when detectives released surveillance footage showing a vehicle stop behind the strip center, two men get out, and a rifle go into a dumpster.
$5,000: the maximum tip reward Crime Stoppers of Houston publicized when it circulated that footage.
14 months from the killing to the first charge.
Two men charged. Ashton R. Mayo, 31, charged over the weekend of September 12 and 13. Marco Trejo charged Monday, September 14. Trejo’s age has not been reported.
No bond set for either man. The Harris County District Attorney’s Office has filed a motion for a hearing to deny Mayo’s bond. Both are held in the Harris County Jail under court orders keeping them separated.

What the coverage buried

FOX 26’s Tuesday story is a short breaking item and it does the basic job. Two things a reader would want are not in it.

The first is the delay. FOX 26 notes the killing was in July 2025 and moves on. Hoodline’s Monday story has the part that explains the gap: the case was unsolved for five months before detectives released the video, and the charges came about nine months after that. The sequence is the story of this case, and only one of the two outlets prints it.

The second is the charge itself. FOX 26 reports both men charged with murder. Hoodline reports Mayo charged with felony murder. Those are different charges. Neither story gives a cause number or names the court, so a reader cannot look up which one is actually filed.

The other side

The honest case for the Sheriff’s Office is that this worked. A shooting outside a bar with no suspect in custody and the weapon in a dumpster is the kind of case that stays open. The office kept it open, put the video out, and brought two charges fourteen months later. Bond has not been set for either man, and prosecutors have moved to deny it in one of them. That is a different picture from other Harris County bond cases this site has documented, and it is worth saying so.

The question the coverage does not ask is why the video was held until December. There can be sound investigative reasons to hold evidence back, and nobody has claimed otherwise. Nobody has asked either, and it is the one step both accounts point to as the thing that moved the case.

What to watch

Wednesday, September 16: Trejo is expected in court.
Whether bond is set for either man, and whether the District Attorney’s motion to deny Mayo’s bond gets a hearing.
The cause numbers and the court, once they surface in Harris County District Clerk records. That resolves the murder versus felony murder question.
Whether a grand jury indicts. A charge is not an indictment.

Bottom line

Two men are charged, neither is convicted, and neither has a bond set. The case took fourteen months and turned on a video that was not public for the first five. That gap, not the arrest, is the part worth following.

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