Suspect McCoy

Suspect McCoy

Jacolby Tremone McCoy and his buddies allegedly planned to rob a Plano Road business, but they did not bank on the business owner being upstairs and armed.

Sign up for our newsletter!

* indicates required

It happened early Tuesday, about 4:30 a.m. at a business in the 10300 block of Plano Road, when four masked men broke in by prying open the door. But the owner, who was working upstairs, heard the commotion, came down and opened fire on the suspects who he witnessed grabbing cash, according to police.

The suspects ran out to a vehicle and hurriedly departed.

Some 30 minutes later, an (unmasked) McCoy was dropped off at the doors to Baylor Scott & White Medical Center, formerly Doctors Hospital near White Rock Lake. After diagnosing gunshot wounds, hospital personnel called police, who fairly promptly connected the dots.

“Evidence collected at the scene, at the hospital, and witness testimony provided detectives with sufficient probable cause to charge Mr. McCoy with the burglary on Plano Road,” police say in a press release, adding that “Mr. McCoy is hospitalized in critical condition. The business owner was not injured.”

See the Advocate’s 2016 interactive crime map, highlighting the crimes in the neighborhood and surrounding areas that we’ve covered.