Mother finds daughter's stolen Hyundai and gets shot in both legs while trying to take it back: Police

When a pistillate saw her daughter's stolen Hyundai Sonata astatine a Tennessee buying center, she tried to retrieve it — lone to beryllium shot aggregate times by a man, authorities say.

Marquis Byers, 23, has been charged with aggravated assault successful transportation with the incident, tribunal records reviewed by Law&Crime show. He is being held successful the Shelby County Jail connected a $125,000 bond.

On Wednesday, a pistillate was driving successful the country of Charlestowne Shops buying halfway connected Mount Moriah Road Extension successful Memphis, Tennessee. As she drove, she saw her daughter's stolen 2011 Hyundai Sonata successful the parking batch and approached it, according to tribunal documents reviewed by section CBS affiliate WREG.

The parent parked her ain conveyance to artifact the Sonata truthful that idiosyncratic couldn't get distant with the car, she told authorities. She past got into the Sonata, closed the door, and looked down to unfastened the hood erstwhile abruptly she heard respective gunshots.

She had been changeable successful some legs.

She reportedly looked up to find 2 men getting into a achromatic BMW. The parent called 911, and Memphis constabulary officers arrived astatine the scene.

Officers are said to person tied 2 tourniquets to the mother's legs to halt her bleeding from the gunshot wounds. She was taken to a adjacent infirmary successful non-critical condition.

Officers reviewed adjacent surveillance footage and said they saw a black-clothed antheral — alleged to beryllium Byers — get retired of the BMW, attack the driver's doorway of the Sonata, and occurrence respective shots, hitting the parent successful the legs.

A pistillate past exited the BMW and confronted Byers, authorities said. Another antheral grabbed the weapon that Byers allegedly dropped, and the 2 men left.

The pistillate reportedly stayed down to assistance the shooting victim.

The BMW was tied to Byers and his 2 associates, who were not charged arsenic of Thursday, WREG reported. Byers was arrested and booked into jail.

He appeared successful tribunal this week. It is unclear erstwhile helium is acceptable to return.