{"id":282205,"date":"2026-05-07T02:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/282205\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T02:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:36:08","slug":"illegal-immigrant-idd-as-attempted-carjacker-gunned-down-by-texas-dad-protecting-his-family-of-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/282205\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal immigrant ID’d as attempted carjacker gunned down by Texas dad protecting his family of 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shocking video shows an illegal immigrant from Mexico being shot and killed by a Texas father\u00a0during a carjacking attempt<\/a>\u00a0involving his family of eight, including a baby, police confirmed to Fox News.<\/p>\n

The Garland\u00a0Police Department<\/a>\u00a0said, at about 3:30 p.m. Sunday, officers responded to a crash involving a car that hit two other vehicles.<\/p>\n

Officials said the driver of the car at fault, identified as Jose Ramirez, 30, parked at a nearby gas station and was unsuccessfully attempting to \u201ctake several vehicles by force\u201d in the parking lot.<\/p>\n

He then ran across the road to a convenience store parking lot, where he attempted to forcefully take the father\u2019s car, according to police.<\/p>\n

Surveillance video obtained by affiliate\u00a0FOX 4 Dallas<\/a>\u00a0showed Ramirez yanking the father out of the driver\u2019s side of his car and forcefully trying to get inside.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0small child was seen running\u00a0from the back seat as the family scrambled to escape.<\/p>\n

Ramirez was then seen closing the doors and sitting inside the driver\u2019s side as the father opened fire from the passenger side, police said.<\/p>\n

Ramirez was taken\u00a0to a hospital,\u00a0where he was pronounced dead, authorities said. <\/p>\n

\"ScreenshotNew video confirmed by the Garland Police Department shows a Texas father fatally shooting an illegal immigrant from Mexico during an attempted carjacking.<\/p>\n

No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n

Officials said the father stayed at the vehicle and was cooperative with investigators, and no charges were filed against him<\/p>\n

Fox News has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to request Ramirez\u2019s immigration history and comment.<\/p>\n

\"AOfficers responded to the scene as Jose Ramirez, 30, forcibly tried to carjack the man\u2019s vehicle before he fired shots at Ramirez, as Garland Police Lt. Pedro Barineau described the father\u2019s actions during the shooting as \u201cself-defense.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Ramirez was unarmed, authorities said he was \u201cusing force,\u201d and the father had no way of knowing whether he had a weapon.<\/p>\n

Garland Police Lt. Pedro Barineau said the shooting \u201cseemed to be self-defense,\u201d noting \u201cit kind of all happened like really fast.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tatiana Starks, manager of the nearby Garland Smoke and Vape shop, told FOX 4 she saw Ramirez breaking into cars at the gas station and recorded the incident.<\/p>\n

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She stopped recording as Ramirez walked toward the family\u2019s car, noting she made eye contact with him.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou could definitely tell that he was not in his right state of mind,\u201d Starks said. \u201cI\u2019m just glad that the man was able to\u00a0protect himself and his family.\u00a0\u2026 It\u2019s just a blessing that the kids and the family walked away with no injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shocking video shows an illegal immigrant from Mexico being shot and killed by a Texas father\u00a0during a carjacking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[104010,7770,3346,27,29,28,734],"class_list":["post-282205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-carjackings","tag-illegal-immigrants","tag-shootings","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282205","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=282205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}