Dec. 1, 2003, 6:57AM


Bystander shoots alleged car burglar in buttocks
Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle



A Baytown man was shot and killed early Saturday when a bystander caught him breaking into cars at a southeast Houston apartment complex, police said.


Hector Faz, 23, was allegedly burglarizing cars in the 8400 block of Winkler at 3:40 a.m. when someone yelled at him to leave, witnesses told police. When Faz refused to get off the property, the person yelling at him shot him in the buttocks, homicide investigators said.


Faz then jumped into his own car and drove two blocks down the street before crashing into a residence, police said. The bullet that pierced his buttocks was found to have exited his body through the upper groin, police said.


Faz, of the 400 block of South Road, died at Ben Taub Hospital. Police have not determined who shot him.