Stand Your Ground? Woman Shoots Man To Death In Houston Gas Station

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Published on Jul 23, 2013

stand your ground houston gas station | The details, like the surveillance tape, are somewhat fuzzy.

But what's clear is that a 58-year-old man is dead and a woman is being questioned after she pulled a rifle from the trunk of her car and shot him, authorities said.

Houston police are investigating the violent Sunday evening disupte at a Gulf gas station on the city's south side.

The woman, who was filling up her car, was aggressively approached by a man who shook an umbrella at her and made sexual advances, police said.

Charges have not yet been filed in the incident.
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She repeatedly told him to leave her alone, investigators told KTRK in Houston.

On the tape, the man is seen confronting her at the pumps and at the entrance to the cashier's booth.

More than once, the man shakes his umbrella at the woman as he steps close to her.

A witness, who can be seen walking just feet away, said the man had a knife.

After fatally shooting man at a gas station, a Houston woman was later taken in for questioning.
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"Too many people ain't known he had a knife in his hand and he had the umbrella in his other hand," Jon Thomas said, according to KTRK.

"She seen him with a knife and took out her gun and pointed it toward the ground, like a warning," Thomas said. "Like 'get off me.' He kept walking toward her like he was fixing to do something, and that's when she shot off," he said.

Neither the man nor the woman has been identified by police.

Darryl Daniel, the shooting victim's brother, said there must have been a terrible misunderstanding.
An unidentified woman pulled a rifle from her car trunk and opened fire on a man who repeatedly confronted her in a Texas gas station, police say.
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"She just didn't know him, you know? Because if she knew my brother she'd know he wouldn't hurt nobody," Daniel told the Texas TV station.

Police said a pocketknife was found in the dead man's clothing.

No charges have been filed yet in the ongoing police investigation.