Texas man, 90, shot and run over by own car in carjacking outside retirement home

A 90-year-old man was shot, killed, and run over with his own vehicle during a carjacking outside his retirement home in Houston, Texas.

Witnesses say the carjacker approached Nelson Beckett, a grandfather of five, and assaulted him in front of the Lone Star Living assisted living complex on Saturday, August 31. Witnesses said the attacker pulled out a gun , shot Beckett, and jumped in the car .

The alleged carjacker mowed down the elderly man while fleeing from the police . He is still at large.

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Beckett was rushed to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.

A neighbor said that he heard exactly one gunshot ring out from the parking lot, and that Beckett apparently put up a fight when his assailant approached him. "He had his little shopping cart and a scuffle ensued," neighbor Rod Boson told KHOU 11.

“They say he put up a good fight. That’s when he got shot. As the suspect backed up, he hit [the victim]," Boson continued. The police found Beckett's car abandoned at an apartment complex less than three miles away.

Beckett is survived by two children, five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Family members identified his body on Sunday.

“He loved big and loved his family so much,” his daughter Tami Freund told Fox 26 . “To him, everyone had value, and he would do anything for anyone.”

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Beckett served in the Navy and attended Abilene Christian University. When he returned from the Navy, he worked in sales for most of his life. Neighbors say he was also an active church member.

Senior Minister Steve Sargent remembered Beckett during Sunday services. He said he was a people-loving person who "loved swapping stories, telling jokes and showing pictures."

"This is … This is just, it’s pathetic as it gets," Houston police Lt. Jonathan French said. "That’s all I’ll say."