North Houston Freeway Shootout

[SF-TX]

No charges in north Houston freeway gunshot exchange
By DALE LEZON Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle
April 9, 2009, 11:40AM

No charges have been filed so far in a fatal shooting earlier this week on Interstate 45.

Houston police said a man killed one man and wounded two others after they fired at him while driving in the 9400 block of North Freeway about 12:20 a.m. Wednesday.

Officers were called to a gas station in the 7400 block of North Shepherd because three males had been shot. Investigators determined that the men had been shot at the freeway and drove to the Shell station.

According to police, they were driving a white Pontiac Grand Prix when they fired gunshots at the driver of a truck. Then they exited the freeway at West Gulf Bank.

The truck driver stopped on the West Gulf Bank overpass and got a rifle from his back seat for protection, police said. As he looked over the side of the freeway to see the license plate of the Pontiac, he saw the car's driver's side window open and feared the suspects would shoot at him again.

He fired several shots at the Pontiac, hitting the passenger who was sitting in the front seat and another man who was in the back seat.

The front-seat passenger, 17, was taken to Memorial Hermann Northwest Hospital, where he later was pronounced dead.

The Ponitac's driver, who was cut in the face by flying glass and shrapnel, and rear seat passenger were treated at the hospital. Their conditions are not immediately known.

A 19-year-old man who was passenger in the car ran away, but was later found and questioned.

dale.lezon@chron.com

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6366239.html

[SF-TX]

Probably the same incident:

HPD: Man Dies While Trying To Steal Boat

POSTED: Wednesday, April 8, 2009
UPDATED: 5:32 pm CDT April 8, 2009
HOUSTON -- One person was killed when a group of men tried to steal a boat while driving down a freeway, KPRC Local 2 reported.

Houston police said three men in a car tried to steal a boat that a man was hauling with his pickup truck on Interstate 45 at about 1 a.m.

Investigators said the men in the car opened fire on the man in the pickup truck. The man in the pickup truck returned fire, officials said.

One of the men inside the car was killed. The driver of the car stopped at a gas station on North Shepherd Drive for help.

The driver of the pickup truck lost control and ended up a field. There were fish in the boat because the man was returning from a fishing trip at Lake Conroe.

http://www.click2houston.com/news/19.../detail.html#-

[Richard]

Dumb a$$es - everyone worthy of being called a Texan (like the guy in the pickup) knows it's critical to hold the high ground in the defense.

Richard's $.02

[The Reaper]

I like it, and I would vote to return no bill, but I still think he was on shaky legal grounds with them fleeing.

TR

[frostfire]

Not sure how far is the distance, the weather, the rifle specs, and how many rounds spent, but shooting at an angle, unsupported, at a moving target, and scoring hits = damn good shooting!

....however, I can see how he may be charged for putting other drivers in danger. Hopefully there are eye witness or cameras that declare the roads were clear for engagement!

This reminds me of Clint Eastwood's telling street punks in Gran Torino, " Ever mess with someone and later on you wish you had never messed with them? Well that's me".