With the stupidity of teenagers,I'm glad I don't live in Texas. I'd be dodging bullets all the day long.
It's ridiculous to be chasing people with guns blasting over small stolen goods. Most people have insurance to cover their losses.
Real simple, don't steal and you don't get shot at, what is so hard to understand about that.
You're going to file an insurance claim for a $28 theft? Assume that it's one $28 drive off a day for a month, that's $840. You probably haven't reached his deductible for a claim. After that one drive off, he's going to have to sell almost 1000 gallons of gas to make enough profit to cover that one loss.
Granted, he screwed up, big-time. But don't assume that those drive-offs could just be ignored and absorbed as a cost of doing business.