Caught on video: Shootout Between Store Clerk, Robbers Southeast Houston, Texas

October 8, 2011

HOUSTON -- Dramatic surveillance video captured a store clerk returning fire on robbers at a gas station in southeast Houston Saturday morning.
Police said two masked suspects entered the Valero gas station on Martin Luther King Jr. at Belarbor around 6:30 a.m.
The video shows one of the suspects shooting a store clerk in the leg, as the other suspect jumped over the counter and started looking for money.
But police said another store clerk grabbed a gun and fired several shots, hitting one of the suspects twice in the upper body.
The suspects scrambled out the door and ended up in Gerald Kilpatrick's front yard.
"They came around that side there and I guess the guy dumped the gun right here," said Kilpatrick.
He said the men claimed that they were victims of a carjacking, so Kilpatrick allowed one of the men to rest on his porch.
"He laid on the porch," said Kilpatrick. "He was in his boxers. I don't recollect how his pants and stuff got off. He was bleeding so bad."
Kilpatrick called police, and the injured man was taken into custody.
HPD identified him as 22-year-old Harold Robertson. He's been charged with aggravated robbery. His alleged partner in crime hasn't been arrested yet.
The injured store clerk was released from the hospital and was at home resting Monday. The clerk who fired the shots was taking a few days off to recover.

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[machineguntongue]

The sad part is they never gave the clerks a chance to give them money.

They went straight in for a kill.

Fast scrambling clerk gained cover. Smart move. The left side clerk had nowhere to go. So sad. Pointless violence. When will bad guys learn that regular "boring" jobs is what most people do.

Easy money never works out. No respect for the value. An earned $1 is more valuable than an easy $1.

[ksalbrecht88]

@machineguntongue Right on!

[JDubs878]

Didn't even have to watch the video to know that blacks were involved.

[TiberFoaming]

@JDubs878

I think they prefer to call themselves "niggers"

[JAP28ful]

Hell yea ol man took aim fucker didn't even see it coming..

[msvisio]

oh damn... i am so surprised ... ITS A NIGGA!

[TEDOVSKY]

As a black man visiting america i have to say that altho Niggers COME IN ALL COLOURS for me the black and hispanic ones are the worst. They decimate mainly their OWN communities with their drug-dealing, gangbanging and murders. The black communities hate niggers like the scumbags above but are too frightened to speak out. If white folks condemn these evil acts the niggers yell "racism" and if black folks condemn them the niggers yell back "you're a "sell-out" or "house-nigger" etc. They're SCUM

[TiberFoaming]

@rod1ish No thx, I dont like the Zoo.

[ballrub]

@1;26,what language was that monkey speaking???? and go figure...MLK dr. them damn asians are at it again.

[rod1ish]

@TiberFoaming you are so damn racist for this comment...what kinda shit is dat and for all those that liked that comment yall just as bad...yall dnt know how it is in southpark...how about yall take a ride out here

[aaroncoats1]

It is MLK!!! Police don't even roll through there!! LOL

And if they do, they keep rolling!

[CALI2TEXBOY]

this is y u dont wear sag and wear baggy clothe when u go rob a store lol arm getting hung on his XXXXL shirt and pants redusing mobabily for legs lol he looked like a fish when he out the water lmao!!!