Bow-and-arrow hunter
kills man trying to steal his car
By ROMA KHANNA
Copyright 2002 Houston
Chronicle.
A would-be car thief
died
Friday after he was shot by the car's owner, a camouflage-clad hunter
toting
a bow and arrow, police said. The thief was moments from a clean
getaway
when the hunter happened upon his car, police said. The man told the
hunter
he had a gun and threatened to kill him, said Sgt. T.E. Kiser of the
Harris
County Sheriff's Department homicide division. The hunter drew his bow
and shot at the man, hitting him in the hip and buttocks area. The man
jumped from the vehicle and ran across the 9500 block of East Mount
Houston
Road in northeast Harris County. Passing motorists saw him run into a
field
and collapse, detectives said. The man, who has not been identified,
was
taken by LifeFlight to Memorial Hermann Hospital, where he was
pronounced
dead. Detectives declined to identify the hunter but said he would be
questioned
Friday evening. Detectives said they found a stolen vehicle in the
wooded
area north of East Mt. Houston where the hunter had parked his car to
practice.
"It appears the man who tried to steal the car may have been living in
that vehicle," Kiser said. "He must have noticed when the hunter left
his
car and tried to break in. He had already broken the steering column
and
was about to start the car when the hunter arrived." No charges had
been
filed Friday evening. Kiser said the case would likely be referred to a
grand jury.