Vietnam Veteran's Attempt To Fight Back Against Carjacker Caught On Video

By Bill Galluccio

January 24, 2018

A Vietnam War veteran refused to be an easy target for a carjacker at a Texas gas station. According to Fox 4 News, Allan Huddleston was picking up the newspaper at a Shell gas station when an unidentified man approached him asking for a cigarette and money. The man then pushed Huddleston and jumped into the driver's seat of his truck. Huddleston refused to just let the man steal his truck and attempted to fight back. 

The 69-year-old veteran reached into his truck and grabbed the carjacker by the neck and dragged him from the vehicle. 

So I reach in there, and I grab him around his neck in a head hold, I guess you'd call it. I drag him out of the truck.

The two men wrestled on the ground, before the carjacker got the upper hand. He managed to get the keys and Huddleston's wallet during the altercation. As he got back in the vehicle and drove away, Huddleston still had some fight left in him as he grabbed the door in an attempt to stop the assailant. He was dragged about 20 feet before being run over by his own truck.

The Vietnam War veteran was treated for non-life threatening injuries, including a broken leg.

Police found the truck abandoned in Fort Worth a few hours later.

The suspect is still at large and police are trying to determine his identity.

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