Details of TX repossession shooting released

Victim identified and in serious injury

Arlington, TX – May 18, 2022 – Back on Tuesday we reported of a man shot and suffering serious injuries from a shooting that occurred during a midday repossession at an apartment complex. The identities of the men involved have been released as well as details of the shooting which left the previously unnamed man fighting for his life from gunshot wounds to the head and back.

As it turns out, it was not a repossessor, but the owner of Salem Autos, a small buy here pay here lot. Adel Elhindawi and another unnamed employee were out top repossess a loaner car that hadn’t been returned. Our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family all the same.

Police are still not releasing the name of the shooter, but they do know who it was as he was a customer at their car lot for years.

According to Espinoza, the man who shot Elhindawi had purchased a vehicle off their lot three weeks earlier, but the car was having mechanical issues. Salem Autos agreed to work on the car and provided the borrower a loaner.

Repossession shooting victim, Adel Elhindawi

After the car was fixed and returned last week, the loaned Jeep Cherokee was never brought returned, so Monday morning, Elhindawi and the other employee went to repossess the Jeep, which had GPS in it, in a blue Dodge Charger.

“We were trying to get ahold of the guy to get back the loaner car. He said 30 minutes. 30 minutes. Nothing. It’s been three days. No car,” the employee said. “So we decided to go pick it up. It was just another car to pick up.”

The unnamed employee reported to police that he had started up the Jeep and was ready to leave with Elhindawi behind him in the blue Charger when the bullets came out of nowhere.

“As he came running at the car, he shot four shots at me. I ducked and made it out, and my boss couldn’t follow me because the shooter was right there,” he recalled. “So he tried to go around, but he chased him and shot him twice.”

The employee said that the shooter then pointed the gun back at him, put it to his head and told him to get out of the Jeep. And he did. Promoptly, the shooter climbed behind the wheel and fled in the Jeep.

Elhindawi was rushed to the hospital with gunshot wounds to his head and back.

“For somebody to do this to a loving person who was doing a favor who was helping them out who was going above and beyond to help them out. Give them a car when they needed a car. For them to do this to him, it’s senseless,” Espinoza said.

Elhindawi, a businessman for decades and a husband and father of two, is now with loved ones hoping he defies the odds and survives.

“Right now, he is fighting for what he needs to fight for,”

Source: FOXnews4