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<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color" style="color:#241b1b;font-size:14px"><strong>Food truck operator shot dead an armed robber who tried to hold up her food truck in Houston, Texas, on March 28 </strong></h2>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color" style="color:#241b1b;font-size:14px"><strong>Keshondra Howard Turner, 53, was cooking in her soul food truck at 1pm on Tuesday when a man posing as a customer before pulling out a gun and demanded her cash </strong></h2>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color" style="color:#241b1b;font-size:14px"><strong>Turner&#8217;s partner closed the window but the robber stuck his gun in and attempted to shoot her</strong></h2>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color" style="color:#241b1b;font-size:14px"><strong>Robber&#8217;s gun jammed, giving Turner time to reach for her licensed firearm and shoot several rounds at the criminal </strong></h2>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color" style="color:#241b1b;font-size:14px"><strong>23-year-old would-be robber was declared dead at the scene </strong></h2>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color" style="color:#241b1b;font-size:14px"><strong>Turner was taken to a local hospital for a panic attack, but police said shot in self-defense and would not be facing charges</strong></h2>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Keshondra Howard Turner, [photo], 53, was cooking in her soul food truck at 1pm on Tuesday when a man attempted to hold up the business and shoot her </strong></p>



<p>A Texas grandmother with a licensed handgun took down an armed robber Tuesday who had attempted to hold up the soul food truck, she co-owns and operates with her brother.<br>Keshondra Howard Turner, 53, was cooking around 1pm inside the &#8216;Elite Eats and Cold Treats&#8217; truck in a Houston parking lot when a 23-year-old Hispanic man drove up alongside the vehicle.<br>The man asked what was on the menu, but as Turner attempted to show him a bag of chicken, he pulled a handgun on her and the other employee working in the truck.<br>The would-be assailant then got out of his car and demanded cash.<br>Turner&#8217;s brother quickly shut the food truck&#8217;s open window, but the would-be robber forced it open, stuck his weapon inside and tried to fire.</p>



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<p>The gun jammed, which was when Turner, who is licensed to carry a handgun, drew her own weapon and shot the man several times.<br>The young man took a few steps back from the truck before collapsing about 50 feet away, which was where authorities found him and pronounced him dead.<br>Turner suffered from panic-attack induced chest pains, brought on by the shooting, and was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. </p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>The black truck belonging to the robber, who was described as a 23-year-old Hispanic male, was seen at the scene with bullet holes through the glass </strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Keshondra Turner is scene here posed against her food truck and sporting a shirt with its name and logo. The 53-year-old grandma, is the cook behind the counter of the soul food truck</strong>. <strong>Her family started Elite Eats in 2020</strong></p>



<p>Houston PD investigators said nothing was taken from the food truck and the robber didn&#8217;t fire a shot, but they were checking the area for surveillance video. Investigators also said that Turner is licensed to carry.<br>Police say they do not expect her to be charged because she fired her weapon in self-defense.<br>Law enforcement officers did not file any charges against Turner, but did stick around to gather evidence, which they will present to the Harris County District Attorney&#8217;s Office.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Investigators collect evidence from the scene of the incident. Turner was not charged </strong></p>



<p>Derick Howard, Turner&#8217;s son, said it was divine intervention that had saved his mother.<br>&#8216;She&#8217;s a Godly woman, that&#8217;s why the gun jammed &#8211; because God jammed it,&#8217; he told a local news outlet.<br>&#8216;My momma is a great person, you know? Good-hearted, looking out for everybody. She’d give the shirt off her back,&#8217; he said, adding that his mother would not have opened fire unless she had no other choice.<br>The Turner family started their soul food truck and take-out business three years ago and have operated out of a parking lot in southwest Houston without incident until Tuesday. </p>

