Gun-toting Texas granny shoots dead an armed robber who tried to hold up her food truck
Armed Texas grandmother shoots dead armed robber who tried to break into her food truck by forcing the window closed to shoot inside
- Keshondra Turner, 53, was cooking in her soul food truck at 1 p.m. Tuesday when a man tried to break into the business and fired his gun at her.
- The assailant’s gun jammed, giving Turner time to reach his firearm and fire several rounds at the criminal.
- The 23-year-old would-be robber was pronounced dead at the scene and Turner was taken to a local hospital for a panic attack.
A Texas grandmother with a gun shot down an armed robber Tuesday who had tried to hold up her family’s soul food truck.
The woman, Keshondra Howard Turner, 53, was cooking around 1 p.m. inside the Elite Eats and Cold Treats truck in a Houston parking lot when a 23-year-old man approached the vehicle.
The man asked what was on the menu, but when Turner tried to show him, he pulled a gun on her and the other employee working on the truck.
The alleged assailant got out of his car and demanded cash.
Turner quickly closed the open window of the food truck, but the man forced it open, stuck his gun inside the truck, and tried to shoot.
Keshondra Howard Turner, 53, was cooking in her soul food truck at 1 p.m. Tuesday when a man tried to break into the business and fired his gun at her.
The gun jammed, which was when Turner, who has a license to carry a firearm, drew his own gun and shot the man multiple times.
The young man took a few steps back from the truck before collapsing about 50 feet away, which is where authorities found him and pronounced him dead.
Turner suffered panic attack-induced chest pains from the shooting and was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
Police say they don’t expect her to be charged because she fired her gun in self-defense.
Law enforcement officers did not press any charges against Turner, but stayed behind to gather evidence, which they will present to the Harris County District Attorney’s Office.
Derick Howard, Turner’s son, said it was divine intervention that saved his mother.
Suspect’s black truck with bullet holes through the glass is the scene at the crime scene
Here, Keshondra Turner posed against her food truck and sported a t-shirt with her name and logo on it.
Investigators collect evidence from the scene of the incident. Turner was not charged and probably will not be charged because of her self-defense actions.
Southwest Houston parking lot crime scene
“She is a pious woman, that’s why the gun jammed, because God jammed it,” he told a local news outlet.
‘My mom is a great person, you know? She with a good heart, watching over everyone. She would give the shirt she is wearing,” she said, adding that her mother would not have opened fire unless she had no other choice.
The Turner family started their soul food truck and takeout business three years ago and has operated out of a parking lot in southwest Houston without incident as of Tuesday.