Texas granny kills man who targeted ‘Elite Eats and Cold Treats’
Stop! Or my grandma will shoot.
A pistol-packing Texas granny turned the tables on an armed robber who tried to hold up her family-owned food truck — and fatally shot the crook when his gun jammed.
Keshondra Howard Turner, 53, was cooking soul food inside the “Elite Eats and Cold Treats” truck in a Houston parking lot when a 23-year-old man drove up alongside about 1 p.m. Tuesday, according to KHOU-11 TV.
The man asked what was on the menu, but when Turner showed him he suddenly pulled out a handgun, demanded cash and got out of his pickup truck the station said, citing Houston police Lt. Bryan Bui.
Turner shut the food truck’s window but the would-be robber pried it open, stuck his weapon inside and tried to fire at her.
However, the gun jammed and Turner — who’s licensed to carry a handgun — drew her own firearm and shot the man several times, KHOU said.
![Keshondra Howard Turner poses in front of her food truck.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/NYPICHPDPICT000008951866-1.jpg?w=703)
The man staggered away before collapsing about 50 feet from the truck, where authorities found him and pronounced him dead.
Turner suffered a panic attack following the shooting and was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
Cops deemed the incident a case of self-defense.
They didn’t file any charges against Turner but will gather evidence and present it to the Harris County District Attorney’s Office, ABC13 Houston said.
![Crime-scene tape surrounds the slain robber's pickup truck.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/NYPICHPDPICT000008951868.jpg?w=1024)
Turner’s son, Derick Howard, credited divine intervention for saving his mom.
“She’s a Godly woman, that’s why the gun jammed — because God jammed it,” he told KHOU.
Howard also said his mother never would have opened fire unless she had no other choice.
![Turner behind the window of her food truck.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/NYPICHPDPICT000008951865-1.jpg?w=840)
“My momma is a great person, you know? Good-hearted, looking out for everybody. She’d give the shirt off her back,” he said.
Turner and her family started their soul food take-out business three years ago and operated out of a parking lot at South Main Street and Fondren Road in southwest Houston without any trouble until Tuesday.