Posted 4/11/2004 10:00:00 PM by Douglas

Don't mess with Texas. We'll shoot your lame ass.

A video store employee was wounded after exchanging gunfire with an alleged robber who was killed in an early morning shooting, police said.

Vicente Bonilla, 38, a Northshore Video & News employee, was shot in the chest at about 3:30 a.m. today, police said. He was taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital.

The robbery suspect, Benjamin Delpozo, who was shot several times in the chest, was pronounced dead at the scene at 12915 East Freeway.

Police said Delpozo, 27, wearing yellow gloves and a blue bandana over his face, walked up to the store's entrance carrying a handgun.

Bonilla was armed and stood in front of the store as Delpozo walked up to him. The two then exchanged gunfire before Delpozo collapsed at the store's entrance, police said.

Several customers were in the store when the shooting started, but no one else was injured, police said.

Ouch. You mess with the bull, you sometimes get the horns.