Car jacking suspect shot by police outside Burger King in southwest Houston

An armed man suspected of a car jacking spree in southwest Houston was shot by police after he ran through a Burger King with a pistol, according to authorities.

Two officers confronted the suspect outside the restaurant after and opened fire, Houston police Chief Art Acevedo said. He was rushed to a hospital soon after one of the officers applied a tourniquet to his wounds. He is expected survive, the chief said

The shooting stemmed from an investigation into a black Honda that was reported stolen at gunpoint around 7 a.m. near Bissonnett Street and Kirkwood Road in the Alief area, Acevedo said. Officers spotted the stolen vehicle and tried pulling its driver over around 3 p.m., but he sped off.

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The driver hit a curb and popped a tire near where Bissonnett intersects with Highway 59. He got out of the vehicle and was apprehended without incident, police said, but his passenger bolted for the fast food eatery in the 9600 block of Bissonnet. Still armed with the weapon, he forced a woman and her teen daughters out of another vehicle.

He was unable to drive her car because it was a manual — not an automatic, according to authorities.

“We have reports he didn’t know how to drive a stick shift,” Acevedo continued. “He got frustrated.”

Acevedo identified the suspect only as a 23-year-old man who had recently been handed three years deferred adjudication for an earlier robbery.

Acevedo took aim at Harris County judges and the Harris County District Attorney’s Office for responding to violent crimes at times with deferred adjudication — a form of probation — as a punishment.

“The people who are being most impacted by this violent crime is the community of color,” Acevedo railed. “They’re already victimized by the social economics of this country and we don’t need to be victimize them because we’re not holding violent people accountable who are acting the fool and shooting people.”

Both officers were wearing body cameras, he said.

Staff writer Jay R. Jordan contributed to this report.