Armed Robber Shot by Intended Victim

Another reason it is never safe to assume that a Texan is unarmed:

Ft Worth Star-Telegram
Irving- An Irving teenager accused of trying to rob a man at gunpoint Wednesday evening was shot by the victim in a parking lot of an apartment complex, police said Thursday.

The 16-year-old was shot in the chest and remained in intensive care in critical condition Thursday at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, police said.

The man was not injured, police said. Police declined to identify the man or the teen.

No other injuries were reported in the shooting at about 9 p.m. Wednesday in the 9400 block of E. Valley Ranch Parkway.

The attempted holdup victim, a 45-year-old Irving man, told police that he was sitting in his pickup in the parking lot, talking on his cellphone, when the teen walked up. The teen, armed with a semiautomatic handgun, demanded the man's phone and wallet, police said.

The man told the teen he would give him his wallet and acted as though he was going to get it, but instead grabbed a large-caliber revolver on the seat, police said.

As he pushed the teen's gun away, the man shot him, police said. The teen spun around and ran away, police said. Fearing that the teen would return, the man drove away from the complex and called police a short time later to report the robbery attempt, officials said.

In the meantime, residents found the injured teen sitting on a curb near the apartment complex office. When he said he had been shot, they called police. As the teen was taken by ambulance to Parkland, the man drove back to the complex and gave police details of the attempted holdup.

The teen did not have a handgun when he was found, but police searched the complex and discovered one a few hours later.