The article from the New York Post doesn’t tell us whether the “suspect” was in the United States illegally, but it no longer matters, because he is stone-cold graveyard dead.
By Richard Pollina | Wednesday, May 6, 2026 | 1:39 AM EDT
A Texas father fatally shot a would-be carjacker who tried stealing his car — with his family, including his young children, still inside — after the suspect fled the scene of a multi-vehicle crash across the street.
The chaos began Sunday afternoon when a driver slammed into two cars along Highway 66, about 18 miles outside downtown Dallas, around 3:30 p.m., according to the Garland Police Department.
The driver, whose name has not been released by police, then fled to a nearby gas station, where he was accused of trying to “take several vehicles by force.”
Surveillance footage obtained by Fox 4 showed the suspect approach the victim’s white Impala in the parking lot of a shopping center across the street.
The erratic suspect walked up to the driver’s side of the Impala, immediately prompting the father to jump out of the car.
The father had several children and two adult women in the car during the violent encounter, police said.
The suspected carjacker tried to yank the father away from the vehicle, which triggered a struggle as a young boy and the rest of the family bolted from the car.
Police said the father “produced a firearm” and fired more than 10 rounds at the suspect.
So, what would have happened had the father not taken strong action, if the father had meekly surrendered to the “suspect”? By struggling, he gave the rest of the family the time to get out of the car, possibly saving their lives. Had the “suspect” quickly gained the vehicle, and taken off with kids inside, there’s no telling what could have happened, but none of the possibilities had good outcomes. If he had waited for the police to arrive, the “suspect” could have been off and driving down the highway, putting other, innocent people in jeopardy.
Fortunately, if this had to happen, it happened outside of Dallas, Texas, and the police do not expect any charges to be files against the father. But what if it had happened in Seattle?
By Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News | Tuesday, Cinco de Mayo, 2026 | 10:14 PM EDT
Seattle’s socialist Mayor Katie Wilson is facing fierce blowback on social media after a 77-year-old man was seen on video being beaten by two individuals in a crime that was captured by closed-circuit television cameras, a tool that Wilson has denounced in the past as something that makes the community feel unsafe and “vulnerable.”
The elderly man was walking down the street in downtown Seattle last month when two men walking by him stopped, without any provocation, shoved him to the ground and beat him, KOMO News reported.
Ahmed Abdullahi Osman, 29, was later arrested and charged with second-degree assault, and police are looking for the second suspect. Osman was reportedly booked into jail the night of the assault and then released back onto the streets before a bail hearing.
“Turning on more cameras won’t magically make our neighborhoods safer, but it will certainly make our neighborhoods more vulnerable,” Wilson said in 2025 after Seattle City Council’s approval of expanding the Real Time Crime Center (RTCC) CCTV pilot program, the program used to capture the video of this specific crime, according to KOMO News.
The Mayor doesn’t really want Seattle’s criminal class found and punished, and the fact that the assailant is named Ahmed Abdullahi Osman would certainly contribute to that. The beautiful Seattle, of well-dressed people and good, professional citizens, as depicted in the very liberally-oriented Grey’s Anatomy, certainly wouldn’t beat a 77-year-old man, would they, but they were soap opera characters, where Mr Osman is a real person.
“That’s all the bullets we had or we would have shot him more. Quite frankly, we weren’t taking any chances.” — Sheriff Grady Judd
Of course, Her Honor the Mayor would have a difficult decision in the Texas case, because the deceased carjacker is an Hispanic male, while, at least to judge from the not-all-that-clear surveillance photos, is black. Washington state
prohibits the sale of magazines which hold more than ten rounds, but does not prohibit the possession of such, and the Texas case indicates that the father “fired more than 10 rounds at the suspect”. The father was clearly not taking any chances with a crazed carjacker where his family were concerned.
In both Garland, Texas and Seattle, Washington, the police were only minutes away; in Garland, the victim was prepared, while in the liberal northwest, he was not.
We first noted Zaakir McClendon in August of 2025, when he was finally arrested for the 2022 murder of Nicolas Elizalde and 2023 murder of Nafis Betrand-Hill. I had to use the mugshot of young Mr McClendon, tweeted by Steve Keeley, because the newspaper declined to publish it. The neck tattoo means automatically guilty. It’s a bit hard to read, but it appears to be “NIMB” or “NLMB”, the first of which could possibly be a bad abbreviation for “numbskull.” 
After all of the scandals involving Catholic priests, I’m always not-so-secretly glad when these sexual abuse scandals involve teachers or Protestants. Though the Lexington Herald-Leader simply tells us that the alleged offender was a youth minister, 
