Carjacking suspects arrested following south Bexar County chase

BEXAR COUNTY – Three people were arrested following a chase that covered several miles of south Bexar County Monday afternoon.

The trio crashed the stolen truck they occupied on Applewhite Road at the Bexar/Atascosa County line. 

One man fled on foot following the crash but was captured with the help of the Bexar County sheriff’s K-9 unit.  He refused to surrender and had to be subdued with a stun gun.

The other two, a man and a woman, suffered minor cuts and bruises in the crash and surrendered without incident.

A clerk in a convenience store in Von Ormy, where the carjacking occurred, said that two people approached a man as he was putting gas in his truck. He told the clerk they first asked him for change and then produced a gun and hit him on the head.

The clerk said that the pair had been spotted acting suspiciously just minutes earlier.

“They were in the store before,” the clerk said. “I saw the videotape and they had been standing around waiting."

“His kids were in the truck and they let the kids get out,” the clerk said.

Deputies said that the two men apparently picked up a woman at a nearby strip club as they fled.

All three remain in custody and are facing a variety of charges, ranging from aggravated robbery to evading arrest.