Sheriff: Attempted carjacker gets shot
EDINBURG – The clerk warned Alejandro Salinas about the suspicious men who had been hanging out in front of the convenience store for the past hour.
He told Salinas to be careful as he went back out to his Chevrolet Z-71 pickup truck, that he had just filled at the Aziz Convenience Store about 11 a.m. Saturday.
Salinas walked out to his truck and hopped in.
But before he could close the door, 18-year-old Hector Severo Ramos was holding a .25-caliber pistol at Salinas’ neck, said Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Treviño.
“He says ‘Get out of the truck. I’m going to take it and I’m going to kill you,” Treviño said of Ramos.
Salinas told the gunman to calm down; they could work things out.
Then he pushed Ramos’ pistol away, pulled out his own pistol and fired two 9 mm bullets into Ramos’ chest.
