The incident took place late Wednesday night at a Dallas-area Shell Station, police said, when the suspect, identified as 36-year-old Rickey Wright, approached the vehicle. The mother, Michelle Booker-Hicks, was out of the car paying for gas while her 2- and 4-year old sons sat in the vehicle’s back seats, Dallas’ Fox 4 reported.
Before she returned from the store, the mother saw a man enter her vehicle and attempt to flee, per CBS 11. But before he drove away, the mother jumped into the back of the car herself.
Booker-Hicks told the man to stop, she told Fox 4, before reaching over to the vehicle’s glove compartment and retrieving the gun inside. She fired a single shot to his face, she said. (USA Today)