Corpus Christi police: Man shot with own gun while car is repossessed
Tow truck driver wrestled gun away
By Steven Alford
Corpus Christi Caller Times
Posted July 19, 2010 at 3:23 p.m., updated July 19, 2010 at 3:23 p.m.


McCorkle, 40, was released from the Nueces County Jail on $40,000 bail.

CORPUS CHRISTI — Having your car repossessed is no fun.

Getting shot and sent to jail in the process is even worse.

Officers responded about 4 p.m. Saturday to reports of a shooting in the 3500 block of Santa Fe Street.

An employee of a local auto company told police he was repossessing a Toyota Tundra truck when the 40-year-old owner exited his house and jumped onto the driver’s side of the tow truck.

The vehicles’s owner then thrust a handgun to the tow truck driver’s head and threatened to shoot him, police said.

The driver reached for the handgun and a struggle ensued as he tried to wrestle it away.

During the commotion the handgun discharged a single gunshot which struck the vehicle’s owner in the upper arm. The man then fell back and released the gun, police said.

The tow truck driver drove further down the street with the handgun and called police.

The owner of the Toyota was taken to Christus Spohn Hospital Memorial and treated for injuries that were not life-threatening and released, police said.

Police arrested Jay McCorkle, 40, on suspicion of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a first-degree felony.

He was later released from the Nueces County Jail on $40,000 bail.
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