The carjacking happened around 3:40 a.m. in the 6000 block of Allendale Road on Jan. 24. Houston Police Department's Robbery Division released surveillance video of the incident on Wednesday.
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Police said the victim was asleep in his car, parked outside an apartment complex, when a man opened his driver's side door and pulled him out.
Surveillance video shows a silver SUV park near the man. Then, the first suspect gets out of the passenger's side door and approaches the victim's car. The suspect looks in the car and sees the victim sleeping.
You can watch the surveillance footage in the video player above.
The suspect briefly returns to the SUV before walking back to the victim's car and opening the door, the video shows. Meanwhile, a second suspect drives the SUV closer.
The video then shows the first suspect pull the sleeping man out of the car, onto the ground, and get into the driver's seat.
The victim lies on the ground for a moment before he gets up and tries to get the man out of his car, the video shows.
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That's when the second suspect can be seen exiting the SUV and approaching the victim from behind. He hits the victim several times on the back of the head, causing him to fall to the ground.
The video then shows the first suspect drive off in the victim's blue Nissan Sentra, while the second suspect gets back into the SUV and drives away.
Police said the victim's Nissan was found a few days later in the 4500 block of Airline Drive.
The first suspect is described as a Black man dressed in a black shirt, brown pants and a blue cap. HPD did not have a description of the second wanted man. In the surveillance video, it appeared he was wearing a white face mask.
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