DICKINSON - The man found shot to death by a Dickinson hotel last week may have been looking for "one last fling" with crack cocaine as he fought to give it up, his brother said.

But Justin James Wingo, 24, had encountered the violence that went along with crack at the Dickinson Motel, 2514 Hill Ave., before.

Almost a year ago, 22-year-old Ryan Wingo was with his brother at the motel as he tried to buy drugs when a fight about payment turned violent.

Ryan Wingo was shot once in the chest and once in the leg and spent 22 days in the hospital recovering.

On Friday morning, Justin Wingo wasn't as lucky.

The two bullets he took - in the chest and leg just like his brother - killed him before Galveston County Sheriff's officers arrived at the motel about 4 a.m. Friday.

Officers are investigating what led to Wingo's death. His Toyota Tundra pickup, which was found in flames an hour after the shooting in a Webster parking lot, is being examined for evidence, sheriff's office spokesman Maj. Ray Tuttoilmondo said.

"We don't have a whole lot to work with," he said.

Ryan Wingo said he didn't know the men who shot him last year, but his brother knew one of them. No one was ever arrested.

Dennis Wingo, the man's father, said he's determined that his son's murder won't slip through the cracks.

"I don't care if it is a drug deal gone bad," he said. "We're talking about murder."

Moments before the shooting that killed Justin Wingo, he went to an outdoor ATM and tried to withdraw money three times but couldn't get any out, his father said.

"Maybe if he had gone to that ATM and had money, the transaction would have happened and he would have his life," Dennis Wingo said.

Tuttoilmondo said the area around the motel was well-known for drug deals but said the investigation hadn't uncovered whether a drug deal led to Wingo's death.

Ryan Wingo said his brother developed a crack cocaine addiction in the last year or two. He was struggling to break away from the drug and had been sober for two months, Ryan Wingo said.

Justin Wingo worked as a boilermaker at plants across Texas and Louisiana, most recently in Orange but got into trouble when he came back home, Dennis Wingo said.

"Wherever overtime was, he chased it," Dennis Wingo said. "When he got back around here, that's where the access (to crack cocaine) was."

Investigators don't have any suspects in Wingo's death, Tuttoilmondo said. Witnesses told officers they saw two men with Wingo shortly before he died but didn't provide detailed descriptions.