THE CHRON: Police were investigating the death of a man who was found shot in a pickup truck parked along a road in northwest Houston Wednesday morning.
The body was discovered about 7:20 a.m. slumped behind the steering wheel of a black Chevrolet Silverado pickup in the 5300 block of Lost Forest near Pinemont and not far from Clifton Middle School, according to the Houston Police Department.
Details about the shooting were sketchy, said HPD Officer M.L. Stahlin. Stahlin said a resident spotted the man in the truck. The engine was idling. The resident tried to get the man's attention but couldn't and then discovered the man had been shot. The resident called 911.
No gun was found at the scene, Strahlin said.
Mike Vargas said he saw the truck parked at the curb and the engine idling when he came to pickup his friend to go to work. He said he looked inside and thought the man was passed out behind the wheel.
Vargas said he went to his friend's home and told him about the man. Then they both went outside to investigate. They knocked on the door and the hood but the man didn't respond. Then they opened the door.
"When we opened the door we saw a guy who had been shot in the head," said Roland Mendiola. "All the blood was coming out and blood was splattered on the seat."
Mendiola and other residents said they had never seen that truck in the neighborhood before. They said robberies sometimes happened in the area, but they had never heard someone shot to death in the neighborhood.
It was so close to their doorsteps, it was frightening.
"It makes me a little nervous," said Alyssa Bruemmer-Balboa.
Mendiola said the shooting saddened him.
"I hope they find out what happened to the guy," he said. "Nobody deserves to get shot like that in the head."
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