HUMBLE, Texas — We have an update to a story we first told you about in January after police said a convenience store clerk in Humble was shot and killed by a teen shoplifting suspect.
This week, a grand jury refused to indict the Houston high school student charged with murder in the case.
Mario Young, 17, and another teen surrendered to Houston police a couple of days after the shooting at a gas station off Will Clayton Parkway near the Eastex Freeway.
Surveillance video from inside the store showed a male grabbing a bag of chips and stuffing it into his jacket.
The clerk confronted both teens outside and then followed them in his car. Police say Young then shot into the clerk's vehicle and killed him.
The teens got away despite an extensive search with drones and dogs but later turned themselves in. The second teen wasn't charged.
"But I said from the very beginning when I turned these young men in that there was a lot more to this story that needed to come out and I was confident that once the truth came out they would see that this case was self-defense," community activist Quanell X said Thursday.