Texas mother pulls man trying to steal car with kids inside

A mother in Texas fired at an air raider who was stealing her vehicle while her two young children were inside, police said.

The woman jumped into her SUV after the suspect drove Wednesday night, police said.

Police say that she grabbed her gun and shot the hijacker when he refused to stop, prompting him to go out. to crush.

The sons of the woman – two and four years old – were not injured.

The state of the alleged thief is unknown, but the woman said that she had a message for him.

"I would have liked to kill you if I had not done so already," she told CBS Dallas

She went to the station's convenience store -service when an employee had alerted him that a man was getting into his SUV.

She told the local media that she jumped in the back seat and told the man Ricky Wright, 36, to stop driving

After refusing, she reached the glove box to retrieve a handgun and fired a shot on his face.

told the gentleman to stop, get out of the car, "she told KDFW-News." He did not want to get out of the car. "

" He s' went back and looked at me, I stretched out the armrest to get to my glove box and that's when I shot him. "

She added: "I should have just dumped all the clip but I did not do it."

"I hope it woke him up."

The Police say that the man then hit the car in a lamppost He was arrested and taken to the hospital.

Police say the woman was interrogated at the scene and was been released.

She is unlikely to face charges, add authorities

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