{"id":281678,"date":"2026-05-06T19:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/281678\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T19:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:39:13","slug":"texas-father-shoots-kills-man-attempting-to-carjack-sedan-with-family-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/281678\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas father shoots, kills man attempting to carjack sedan with family inside"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 A Texas father shot and killed a man who allegedly attempted to carjack his sedan with his family still inside.<\/p>\n

On Sunday afternoon, the father and his relatives were sitting in a parking lot in Garland, Texas, near a gas station off Highway 66, when a man approached the driver’s side door and attempted to get in, according to surveillance video obtained by Fox 4<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The unidentified father got out of the sedan and attempted to keep the man from entering it, while the rest of his family fled the vehicle.<\/p>\n

The father and the man struggled as the alleged carjacker<\/a> managed to get inside the driver’s seat. Eventually, the father went around to the passenger’s side front door, where he allegedly fired more than ten rounds at the alleged carjacker.<\/p>\n

The man was taken to the hospital after being shot, where he was pronounced dead, police said, the Daily Mail reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The alleged carjacker<\/a> was unarmed, and no other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n

Authorities added that the father turned his gun over to the police and is cooperating with the investigation.<\/p>\n

Police are unlikely to file charges against the father, as Garland Police Lt. Pedro Barineau said that his actions “seemed to be self-defense.”<\/p>\n

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He also noted that the alleged carjacker initially crashed into two other vehicles before illegally attempting to enter two other cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 A Texas father shot and killed a man who allegedly attempted to carjack his sedan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-281678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}