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Related: About this forumOne man injured after carjacking, shooting at gas station
HOUSTON -- One man is injured after a carjacking and shooting at a gas station in north Houston Saturday night.
Houston police responded to a shooting call around 11:15 p.m. Saturday at a Valero gas station on Jensen Drive at Reid Street in north Houston. Officials say two men jumped another man in the gas station parking lot and took the victim's Chevrolet pickup truck. Police say a witness then pulled out a gun and began shooting at the suspects, accidentally hitting the carjacking victim in the head.
http://www.khou.com/story/news/2015/09/27/one-man-injured-after-carjacking-shooting-at-gas-station/72923278/
Houston police responded to a shooting call around 11:15 p.m. Saturday at a Valero gas station on Jensen Drive at Reid Street in north Houston. Officials say two men jumped another man in the gas station parking lot and took the victim's Chevrolet pickup truck. Police say a witness then pulled out a gun and began shooting at the suspects, accidentally hitting the carjacking victim in the head.
http://www.khou.com/story/news/2015/09/27/one-man-injured-after-carjacking-shooting-at-gas-station/72923278/
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One man injured after carjacking, shooting at gas station (Original Post)
SecularMotion
Sep 2015
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olddots
(10,237 posts)1. life has become a movie
ileus
(15,396 posts)2. practice, practice, practice...
benEzra
(12,148 posts)3. Looks like there's some confusion as to what actually happened.
http://abc13.com/news/witness-who-fired-on-carjackers-sought-after-nw-houston-attack-/1004386/
A man said he was hit on the head near a bus station on the edge of the parking lot. A witness saw what happened and as two suspects got in the man's truck to escape, the witness pulled out a gun and shot at the departing truck.
The suspect ditched the truck about three blocks away.
Police found blood inside the truck. Investigators aren't sure if the blood belongs to the suspect or the truck's owner.
The truck's owner is in the hospital recovering.
I'm interested in seeing what actually happened, and whether the shooter was carrying legally, or not. The shooter's actions certainly don't paint him in a good light, even if he didn't in fact hit the driver. By this report, he fired at a fleeing vehicle after the assault had already been committed and the threat had ended, which would be aggravated assault in pretty much any state, absent some very particular circumstances. And then picking up his brass and leaving the scene would be a second crime in most jurisdictions.