A 90-year-old veteran was killed after he was shot – and then run over with his own car — during a violent carjacking outside a Houston retirement home over the weekend, cops said.
Grandfather of five, Nelson Beckett, was in the parking lot of the Lone Star Living assisted living complex Saturday around noon when the unidentified suspect approached the elderly man and started attacking him, Houston police said, according to reports.
The perp shot Beckett and then jumped into his car, police said. As the suspect fled in the vehicle, he mowed down Beckett, who was pronounced dead at a local hospital, ABC 13 reported.
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A neighbor of the assisted living facility reportedly heard a single gunshot during the apparent struggle.
“He had his little shopping cart and a scuffle ensued,” neighbor Rod Boson told KHOU 11.
“They say he put up a good fight. That’s when he got shot. As the suspect backed up, he hit [the victim].”