| Police: Would-Be Carjacker Shot
Intended Victim Pulls Trigger, Authorities Say
POSTED: 10:19 am CDT July 25, 2007
UPDATED: 10:27 am CDT July 25, 2007
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A would-be carjacker got quite a surprise when he tried to rob a local man.
Instead, police said, he got shot.
It happened just before 11 p.m. Tuesday at East 40th Street and Warwick Boulevard, according to police.
The victim was sitting in a car when a man walked up and tried to take the vehicle, police said.
The victim pulled out a gun and shot the carjacker then he called police, according to authorities.
The man who tried to steal the car was in serious but stable condition at a hospital Wednesday. |