Nephew shot to death in front of uncle during attempted robbery in north Houston

to a story we've been following throughout the day a man shot and killed this morning while pumping gas during an attempted robbery in North Houston the victim has been identified as 30-year-old Andrew Garza investigators say Garza's Uncle shot at the suspects and injured one of them after he realized his nephew was in trouble kprc2 Bill bras is live at Police Headquarters with the latest in this case and Bill people are wondering if police have arrested any of these suspects yeah two are in cus

tody as we speak the third at last check was in the hospital after being injured in the shootout all three are expected to face capital murder charges we spoke with Andy Khan of Crim Stoppers of Houston about this case he says houstonians are tired and fed up with this sort of crime this was a scene at Bowman and robmore Street HPD detectives saying the victim Andrew garz and his uncle stopped here to fill up three men pulled up moments later one of them putting a gun to Garza's head and demandi

ng money Garza's Uncle fearing for for his nephew's safety opening fire on the suspects injuring one Garza shot and killed by the suspects I this situation I mean the person who initiated the criminal conduct and behavior was the people that were trying to commit a crime so whoever they were trying to commit a crime against they felt they had no choice but to defend themselves and you get into a shootout and you know what happens happens but you had every legitimate right to do what you do Andy

KH with Crim Stoppers of Houston saying this sort of scenario has played out several times in recent months I think we're talking more about the standard ground law than we probably have in recent times like what can you do you know what are you what are you allowed to do as a person you know if you're in fear of your life and while you want somebody to be able to protect themselves the flip side to that right is when you have a shootout at a gas station at 6:30 in the morning or early in the mo

rning and there's Elementary School there's businesses around you put other people at risk as well right it Dominoes and when you do something like that the domino effect is something that you really don't take into consideration and you know when bullets are flying people happen we saw what happen uh two years ago with uh Arlene Alvarez you know when that family you know the person that was trying to get money somebody robbed him and they got into a Chase and they fired a gun and you had a 9-ye

ar-old girl that ended up dying the victim's uncle in the this case is not expected to face any charges according to HPD we also have several articles on our website click to Houston about stand your ground laws just go to our website again click to houston.com we're live in downtown bahas kprc2 news all right Bill thank you