Posted on 05/27/2006 3:27:19 AM PDT by Ninian Dryhope
The Richmond police heard shots and came running
RICHMOND - Two teenagers who police said tried to steal a Rosenberg man's luxury car picked the wrong person, the wrong place and the wrong time.
After abducting the man, who was able to stash his own pistol in a pocket, the teens drove him to a vacant lot Friday that just happened to be a few hundred feet from the Richmond police station, where officers were changing shifts.
When McRon Thompson, 23, opened fire on the would-be car thieves, police heard the shots and came running. The teens, who were both wounded, were captured.
"Obviously, they didn't know where they were, close to the police station and during a shift change. They didn't have a clue," said Sgt. Lowell Neinast of the Richmond Police Department.
Neinast said the teens are from Brookshire and detectives do not know why they chose the Fort Bend County town as a place for a carjacking.
The two, 18-year-old Joshua Payne and a 15-year-old whose name was not released because of his age, are facing aggravated robbery charges.
No charges are expected against Thompson, Neinast said.
Thompson had stopped at a carwash in the 1400 block of Jackson about 1 a.m., after finishing work at the nearby Richmond Foundry.
Vehicles looked suspicious
Neinast said Thompson was washing his customized Cadillac when he noticed three vehicles drive slowly through the carwash parking lot. The cars left but returned a few minutes later, again going slowly through the parking lot.
After the three cars passed by the second time, Thompson retrieved a .40-caliber pistol from his car, loaded it and then put it in his pocket.
A few minutes later, one of the cars returned to the carwash and stopped.
When Thompson peered around the wall of a carwash stall, he found himself staring at the end of a pistol held by a young man wearing a bandana over his face.
The gunman forced Thompson into the back seat of the Cadillac while another person got behind the wheel and began to drive away.
Neinast said the pair drove to the 500 block of Calhoun, just a block away from the Richmond police station, an imposing brick building that served for many years as the Fort Bend County Jail.
The teens ordered Thompson out of his car and told him to lie down on the grass. While Thompson was complying, a second vehicle, one that he had seen earlier at the carwash, arrived and stopped.
Neinast said as the teens were getting ready to leave in the Cadillac, Thompson managed to pull his pistol and open fire.
Payne was hit in the back by a bullet that exited his stomach. The other teen was struck in the right shoulder.
Police officers, standing in the parking lot of the station, heard the shots and were on the scene in seconds. Officers spotted the teens running, then caught them. Police also recovered a semiautomatic pistol allegedly used by the 15-year-old, Neinast said.
Both teens hospitalized
Payne was taken by Life Flight to Memorial Hermann Hospital and the 15-year-old to Ben Taub Hospital. Their conditions were not immediately available.
Other suspects are still at large.
Neinast said Thompson's Cadillac was in "immaculate condition," and the suspects were probably just driving around town looking for a target.
"Then they spotted him in the carwash," Neinast said.
This story made my day - thanks for posting it!
It's just too bad the guy could'nt have gotten a better shot. These maggots will be back on the streets comitting crimes in no time flat!
The moral of the story? use a bigger caliber bullet.
I love stories with happy endings.
How is the public to help find those that got away without an acurate description to go on?
I guess I'm just not PC enuff!
This PC crap needs to stop. This thug was involved in a kidnapping. The local community should know this thug's identity.
"My wife and I broke down and both purchased hand guns yesterday and plan on getting conceal and carry licenses in the next few weeks."
Good for your two. Get info on the nearest club and NRA training (like NRA Basic Pistol, Home Defense I and II, etc...). Here in NH where I live there is no mandatory courses you need to take for a CCP (if your not a crook, you get one immediately). But, it is always best to take the courses.
And practice, practice, practice ...
The teens, who were both wounded, were captured.
Umm.
Or hollow-points.
Good for you. It's good to know there are people aout there ready to take care of business, if business should happen to come their way.
In Ohio you have to take a 12 hour course to qualify for the conceal carry. We also just joined the NRA yesterday.
In July my son is coming home and will spend time with us at the range.
So the two teenagers laid you down on the grass and left the scene but you shot both of them in the back?
I can hear the attorney now.
They have carwashes open at 1 am in Richmond? Not when I'd choose to wash my customized Cadillac.
Thompson must have been in a punk-baiting mood that night.
Mrs VS
The attack was still on. The victim had no way of knowing the perps were not going to return and do him bodily harm. I would think he would also argue that was the first chance he had to retreive his weapon and assume a defensive posture.
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