HOUSTON — A 71-year-old Houston man says he’s lucky to be alive — and even luckier that his son was home to save him.
Surveillance video obtained by KHOU 11 shows the man returning home from the store to his Gulfton-area apartment when a masked suspect slipped in behind him. Within seconds, the attacker grabbed him in a chokehold and dragged him to the ground outside his door.
“I lost consciousness when he threw me to the ground,” the victim said, asking not to be identified. “Then he was going through my pockets. I think he just wanted to take whatever money I had.”…