HOUSTON – A man is dead after someone ran him over using the victim’s own pickup truck.
The Houston Police Department responded to the crime scene in the parking lot of the Artisan West apartments in Sharpstown around 6:30 a.m. on Saturday.
According to detectives, the victim was run over and then backed over a second time.
Security camera footage from a nearby apartment captured the moment the man was run over twice.
Family members tell KPRC 2′s Gage Goulding that the victim is 30-year-old Byron Yuxon of Sharpstown.
“I can believe it. I didn’t believe it,” Yuxon’s cousin Rudy Muy said. “It’s just something, like, you don’t know when you wake up and they call you. This has happened and something like. It’s hard to believe.”
Neighbors recall waking up to loud screams outside of their apartments. That’s where they found the man lying in the parking lot with a woman crying.
Gage Goulding: “Do you know who did this?”
Rudy Muy: “Actually, we don’t know. Basically, we have no idea.”
Investigators with the Houston Police Department say the suspect(s) then took off in the Ford F-150 pickup truck, speeding down Sands Point Dr.
Police say the investigation is in the early stages, however, they are ruling out this case being an accident.
“It doesn’t appear to be that from the video,” Sgt. Michael Arrington said. “Due to the fact that the person stopped and made sure that they backed up and intentionally ran over the person. But we do know by video surveillance that was recovered on scene that the decedent was struck by a dark gray Ford F-150 truck.”
That’s what police and Yuxon’s family is going off of—hoping someone out there knows who did this.
“He’s a very happy guy, and he’s always kind to everybody,” Muy said. “I don’t know why they do that kind of stuff.”
If you have information that could help the Houston Police Department solve this case, you can call Crime Stoppers of Houston at 713-222-TIPS (8477) or submit an anonymous online tip.