This won't end well for them.

Texas they will be all right

You got to be smart if you plan on doing some revenge killing........

Texas PC9.41-
(a) A person in lawful possession of land or tangible, movable property is justified in using force against another when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to prevent or terminate the other's trespass on the land or unlawful interference with the property.

(b) A person unlawfully dispossessed of land or tangible, movable property by another is justified in using force against the other when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to reenter the land or recover the property if the actor uses the force immediately or in fresh pursuit after the dispossession and:

(1) the actor reasonably believes the other had no claim of right when he dispossessed the actor;  or

(2) the other accomplished the dispossession by using force, threat, or fraud against the actor.
Texas PC 9.42-
A person is justified in using deadly force against another to protect land or tangible, movable property:

(1) if he would be justified in using force against the other under Section 9.41;  and

(2) when and to the degree he reasonably believes the deadly force is immediately necessary:

(A) to prevent the other's imminent commission of arson, burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, theft during the nighttime, or criminal mischief during the nighttime;  or

(B) to prevent the other who is fleeing immediately after committing burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, or theft during the nighttime from escaping with the property;  and

(3) he reasonably believes that:

(A) the land or property cannot be protected or recovered by any other means;  or

(B) the use of force other than deadly force to protect or recover the land or property would expose the actor or another to a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury.

This theft happened in the daytime, and could have been recovered by any other means(wait for the police); as the penal code clearly reads they would have been authorized to use force to recover thier tangible property(truck) but not deadly force.
THey are screwed, and sadly this happens all the time people just dont understand chapter 9 of the penal code.

Don't carry a cell phone and ride a vintage motorcycle.

Thanks for the good news

I bet bigbob is right and their azz is in some kind of trouble with the law. They called the police but did not wait in them and took matters into their own hands
Not condemning them but just saying they should have waited for the PoPo..

If the info from the link is true, not good for the truck owners

It is believed that the truck owners called the police to report the theft before the shooting, but then chose not to wait for officers, according to Soliz.

The family member told police he believed "a firearm may have been pulled by the suspect," prompting him to open fire.
But, Soliz said, police do not know if the suspected truck thief had any weapons on him

One of my clients had his Range Rover stolen from his front driveway on Haynie in University Park almost within sight of the police department. He had a tracking device on it and we found it parked in a cul-de-sac in North Dallas. We didn't approach the vehicle and we called the police. After waiting for a few hours for the police to show up we got fed up with waiting so I just walked to the truck and drove it back to his house. Unless you're in a town that doesn't have many issues and you've got a lot of board officers on your hands you're not going to get a quick response for a stolen vehicle.

Edit: The really odd thing was that nothing was taken out of it and no damage was done to it. They did however leave nearly 60 boxes of Hefty contractor cleanup plastic bags in the back which I gladly took off his hands.

lets circle back next year on this one it will cost them money in defense but they eventually walk with probably time served if convicted of anything

What happened to “he needed shooting” as a legitimate legal defense?

he was driving a stolen vehicle he weaponized. Im with you, Sounds like a win regardless

Bexar County has their own interpretation of the law. I wouldn't want to be involved in a gray area shooting. This will be entirely fact dependent so we will see what the grand jury does.

It's kinda gray, but they could have been waiting a long time for the cops to show and the liberal media went with 'They didn't wait' to put their slant on it. Will be interesting to see if the DA pursues charges.

I am SOFA KING tired of the media siding with the criminals.

Give that man a medal and key to the city.

Unless the suspect produced a weapon during the confrontation, the truck owner will likely go to prison.

Bet he won't do that again

LOVE THIS!!!

But the guy who shot the car thief is toast. As much as you would want to do this. It's now premeditated murder.

Cops get mad when civilians do their job better than they can do it.

I said the same thing about the chick on the railroad tracks

Some of y'all have him in prison already based only on the title of the article worded for clickbait.
Some have him cleared based on boilerplate content that reveals no details of what happened during those final events.

If he shot the thief in the act of stealing the truck he'd be good right? At what point does the act of stealing the truck end? Once he's inside? One he puts the truck in drive? Once it moves from the parking spot? This one could get interesting.

It's getting harder to be a scumbag.

My truck was stolen and I can tell you Onstar is of no value.

It’s pretty simple really. If the suspect produced a firearm, or a weapon that could be effectively utilized based on their proximity to each other, he will likely be no billed. If the suspect didn’t have a weapon, then good luck to the truck owner trying to justify the use of deadly force.

Well said

Bottom line is you shoot when you must, not when you can.

I agree. If it is only theft, you can't just pull a gun out and shoot someone. Now if the thief had a gun, it's a lot easier to justify self defense esp. if there are cameras or witnesses.

Yep, was gonna say, Sounds like it already ended well.

We must be living in a different world.

Exactly. Scumbags are very protected these days.

Yes, they are.

SSS

Great advice. Dogs, illegals, scumbags, etc..

No becasue it wasnt in the night, he could have used force but not deadly force.

If the truck owner broke the law then the law needs to change. I have had three pick up trucks stolen. Two in Livingston Texas. One from the public boat ramp just north of Shepherd Texas on the Trinity River while I was fishing. Cost me a crap ton of money. Enough is enough. I don’t know the details of this particular case other than the thief got what he had coming in my estimation. Whether he was armed or not, it is the only way to be certain he will never steal from anyone else!

If you're concerned about having a truck stolen while leaving it unattended at a boat ramp simply pull the fuel pump relay. It won't be going anywhere at that point. There used to be a manufacturer of ignition boxes called Jacobs Electronics. One of their ignition boxes had an anti-theft feature built into it. If you started the car without flipping a switch it would run for a minute and then it would die. You could restart it and it would run and get you about 30 or 40 yards down the road and then die again. Thieves would usually wind up in the middle of an intersection with a car that wouldn't run but they always thought that there was an issue with the car and not that it was an anti-theft device.

So if you shoot them in the leg, is that just force? Deadly force would be a torso or head shot?

While that may be an effective way to locate stolen automobiles it does not address the issue nearly as effectively as the victim who capped the thief that stole his truck. I am in favor of treating thieves harshly. A bullet in the head of a thief you found in your automobile as standard procedure would deter auto theft. There would also be zero repeat offenders caught a second time.

^^^^ I have friends and family in law enforcement and the general consensus from them when they get a hit on a plate being stolen is that about half the time it's BS. I used to flip Mazda rx-7s because the engines would flood and people would not know how to unflood them and they would sell them with a bad engine. One day I bought a car, towed it up the street from where I bought it with a tow strap, and did the unflood procedure on an RX7 and someone called the fire department because of all the smoke. The law showed up with the fire department and when they ran the plate they told me the car was stolen and put me in handcuffs. The car was titled from Alabama and fortunately I had that title with me along with a bill of sale. The car had been reported stolen several years earlier and had been recovered but was never removed from the hot sheet.

Another time I bought a car that someone had purchased from a Tote The Note lot and at some point they missed some payments and the lot reported the car stolen. They got caught up on the payments and several years later I bought the car from the owner who thought it had a bad engine. It was a super clean one so instead of selling it real quick I drove it for a couple of weeks. I was in a park in Carrollton making out with a girl in the grass when I saw some cops messing with my car. I got up and walked over to them, told them it was my car and they arrested me and impounded the car. I had someone bring the paperwork from home and they cut me loose a few hours later and I was able to pick up the car from the impound lot.

Not every car that's reported stolen is stolen and the issue is not always cut and dry.

Since it happened in Bexar County, I’d go odds they end up charging the owner with something. San Antonio is getting as bad as Dallas and Houston.

Fort worth is getting there too.

If it is a big city, it is going to be overrun with libs, and it is going to turn into a chit hole.

Seems impossible to avoid. Too bad, too. I always liked Ft. Worth.

Local news in San Antonio is reporting that this man is in the clear

One thing they don't tell you is the truck was reported at 1pm. The shooting happened at 4pm. That does not tell us how much time passed between initially calling the police and traveling 20 miles, but it sounds like the owner may have waited a very long time before giving up on the police showing up. It is very likely the police never initiated a response on the stolen truck before they responded to the shooting.

Hummmm….. Sounds like the owners just escalated the response situation…..

He will have to go before a grand jury no matter what, so hopefully that works out okay. Anyone have a link to SAPD saying they aren't going to issue a warrant?

a story with a happy ending!