Following a Robber
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:06 pm
The thread about a tow truck in the driveway included some discussion about following the robber while dialing 911. Here's a case where that got a fellow killed. If you do, be sure and have your pistol close.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4382633.html
Dec. 6, 2006, 12:22PM
Humble robber kills witness chasing him
A Porter resident trying to help police track a gas station robber was fatally shot by the fleeing hold-up man while a 911 emergency operator listened helplessly, police said.
Investigators today were calling Steven Jackson, 47, a "good samaritan'' who risked his life tracking the fleeing robber and reporting the hold-up man's moves to police by cellular telephone.
Jackson was found dead in his car in the 21000 block of U.S. 59 after chasing the armed robber from a Shell station at 1003 FM 1960, police said.
The gunman apparently realized he was being followed and stopped so suddenly that Jackson's vehicle crashed into the robber's. The robber then got out of his car and shot Jackson, police said.
Jackson. a volunteer firefighter for both the Porter and Kingwood departments, leaves a wife and two children. He was a technical sales representative for a family-owned oil equipment company.
According to Humble police, an armed man robbed the Shell gas station shortly after 7 p.m. Tuesday and fled in a white car.
Jackson may have been pumping gas at the station when he witnessed the crime, Humble police investigator Drew Caruthers said.
The Shell store manager said corporate policy barred him from giving his name. But he said the robber first parked across the street, where he appeared to be watching the store.
The man entered the story, brandished a pistol covered by a paper sack and forced the clerk on duty first to a floor and then into a back room.
The man stole several hundred dollars, police said.
After the robber left the store, the clerk ran outside yelling that she'd been robbed, the manager said.
Security cameras are installed in the store but the video equipment that records activity was out of order, police said.
The robber wore no mask, the manager said, adding that the store has been robbed several times in the past.
Humble police Lt. Clinton Sammon said Jackson was found dead in his car about a half-mile from the store and appeared to have been shot at close range.
Before he died, Jackson told a Harris County 911 dispatcher that he'd been shot, Sammon said.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4382633.html
Dec. 6, 2006, 12:22PM
Humble robber kills witness chasing him
A Porter resident trying to help police track a gas station robber was fatally shot by the fleeing hold-up man while a 911 emergency operator listened helplessly, police said.
Investigators today were calling Steven Jackson, 47, a "good samaritan'' who risked his life tracking the fleeing robber and reporting the hold-up man's moves to police by cellular telephone.
Jackson was found dead in his car in the 21000 block of U.S. 59 after chasing the armed robber from a Shell station at 1003 FM 1960, police said.
The gunman apparently realized he was being followed and stopped so suddenly that Jackson's vehicle crashed into the robber's. The robber then got out of his car and shot Jackson, police said.
Jackson. a volunteer firefighter for both the Porter and Kingwood departments, leaves a wife and two children. He was a technical sales representative for a family-owned oil equipment company.
According to Humble police, an armed man robbed the Shell gas station shortly after 7 p.m. Tuesday and fled in a white car.
Jackson may have been pumping gas at the station when he witnessed the crime, Humble police investigator Drew Caruthers said.
The Shell store manager said corporate policy barred him from giving his name. But he said the robber first parked across the street, where he appeared to be watching the store.
The man entered the story, brandished a pistol covered by a paper sack and forced the clerk on duty first to a floor and then into a back room.
The man stole several hundred dollars, police said.
After the robber left the store, the clerk ran outside yelling that she'd been robbed, the manager said.
Security cameras are installed in the store but the video equipment that records activity was out of order, police said.
The robber wore no mask, the manager said, adding that the store has been robbed several times in the past.
Humble police Lt. Clinton Sammon said Jackson was found dead in his car about a half-mile from the store and appeared to have been shot at close range.
Before he died, Jackson told a Harris County 911 dispatcher that he'd been shot, Sammon said.
Even I know that they are on opposite sides of Houston. Was it because they knew he would give them the sound bite they wanted to print?