HPD: Good Samaritan killed in gas station robbery near Meyerland

by khou.com staff
khou.com
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 8:58 AM
Updated today at 9:03 AM

HOUSTON—A good Samaritan was killed early Thursday trying to stop a purse-snatcher at a southwest Houston gas station, according to police.
Police said a woman pulled up to the Chevron gas station on Beechnut at the West Loop Freeway around 12:30 a.m. She walked up to the exterior window to make a purchase when a man with a gun ran up and snatched her purse.
A male customer who witnessed the robbery got out of his red Nissan pickup truck and tried to help the woman.
The suspect shot the man once in the head and fled the scene with the woman’s purse. The victim was taken to Ben Taub hospital, where he later died.