(TX) Pickup’s owner kills suspected burglar 04-03-02
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April 3, 2002, 2:46PM
Pickup’s owner kills suspected burglar
By S.K. BARDWELL
Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle
Evidence in the fatal shooting of a burglary suspect by a northeast
Houston man early today will be referred to a grand jury without
charges, police said.
Juan Fernando Flores, 30, of the 300 block of Vincent, died from a
gunshot wound to the head after a homeowner in the 200 block of Kelley
opened fire on two men he caught taking tools from his pickup truck
about 1 a.m., police said.
The two men fled in a car after the shooting, but police said the car
crashed and began to burn a few blocks away in the 5400 block of Fulton.
A passerby pulled Flores from the driver’s seat of the burning car, and
told police a second man in the car fled on foot. Flores, who suffered
at least one gunshot wound to the head, was dead. Police were unsure
whether his passenger was wounded.
In the car Flores had been driving, police said they found a variety of
tools, some of which were identified as belonging to the resident in the
200 block of Kelley.
Police ask that anyone with information about the second suspect contact
them at
713-308-3600, or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.
