Car wash washout.

McRon Thompson of Richmond, Texas, stopped at a car wash to clean his vehicle at about 1 a.m. on May 26, shortly after leaving work. While he was cleaning his car, he noticed three vehicles slowly cruise through the parking lot. When he noticed the cars slowly proceeding past for a second time, he got a gun from the car, loaded it, and put it in his pocket.

Minutes later, an occupant of one of the cars, a 15-year-old wearing a bandanna and carrying a gun, got the drop on Thompson and forced him at gunpoint into the rear seat of his own car. Then another young man, identified as Joshua Payne, got into the driver's seat and drove the car to a different section of the city. When the youths told him to get out of the car and lie down in the grass, Thompson got his pistol out of his pocket and started shooting, hitting both of the carjackers before they could get into the car and drive off, reported the Houston Chronicle.

The two carjackers then tried to run off, but police at a station a mere block away from the scene heard the gunshots and saturated the area. Both carjackers were subsequently caught and charged with aggravated robbery. The occupants of the other vehicles were not caught.