An ill considered attempt to chase down a car burglary on the city's east side early today ended with the Good Samaritan hospitalized for a bullet in the chest, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.
Police say when the man and his girlfriend saw somebody breaking into a neighbor's car in the 100 block of Lincolnshire, which is just south of Martin Luther King Dr, about 1:30 this morning, they jumped into a car and started chasing the burglars.
At one point, the burglar got out of the car and started shooting at his pursuers.
The man suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and is hosptialized with a non life threatening wound.
The burglar got away.