HPD: Surveillance video captures shootout between Valero clerk, armed robbers

HOUSTON Dramatic surveillance video captured a store clerk returning fire on robbers at a gas station in southeast Houston Saturday morning.

Police said two masked suspects entered the Valero gas station on Martin Luther King Jr. at Belarbor around 6:30 a.m.

The video shows one of the suspects shooting a store clerk in the leg, as the other suspect jumped over the counter and started looking for money.

But police said another store clerk grabbed a gun and fired several shots, hitting one of the suspects twice in the upper body.

The suspects scrambled out the door and ended up in Gerald Kilpatrick s front yard.

They came around that side there and I guess the guy dumped the gun right here, said Kilpatrick.

He said the men claimed that they were victims of a carjacking, so Kilpatrick allowed one of the men to rest on his porch.

He laid on the porch, said Kilpatrick. He was in his boxers. I don t recollect how his pants and stuff got off. He was bleeding so bad.

Kilpatrick called police, and the injured man was taken into custody.

HPD identified him as 22-year-old Harold Robertson. He s been charged with aggravated robbery. His alleged partner in crime hasn t been arrested yet.

The injured store clerk was released from the hospital and was at home resting Monday. The clerk who fired the shots was taking a few days off to recover.