It's a car she said she bought herself for her 21st birthday.
Sources said she briefly left the car parked outside her unit at Soneto on Western apartments in the Katy area on Nov. 1 while she carried her six-year-old daughter inside.
She said she came back out to see her car speeding off.
"My car zoomed by, and so I knew someone was in the car," Shares said.
Shares said she chased after the vehicle. Surveillance video shows her catching up to it at the exit gate, exchanging words with the driver, then jumping into the car through the open driver's-side window as it takes off.
Shares said the thief jumped a curb, crashed just outside the complex, then took off on foot.
"I just knew at that point I had to fight for it or let it go, and I guess at that moment I just wasn't ready to let it go. Would I do it again? No," she said.
The Harris County Sheriff's Office told Eyewitness News it couldn't find DNA or fingerprints, making it impossible to identify the suspect.
But Shares' attorneys say the apartment complex and management company, Embrey Management Services, are just as responsible for the ankle, knee and back injuries she sustained during the crash.
Shares is suing for at least $250,000.
"They should have foreseen the criminals could come into the complex given the large pattern of criminal activity and the fact that their gate wasn't working for residents," said Shares' attorney, Spencer Welch.
The gate was working when Eyewitness News visited Wednesday afternoon. However, Shares said it was left open for two whole days before her car was stolen.
A month before the theft, she said Embrey had notified residents of increasing crime in the area.
"People's cars were being broken into. Things were being stolen from inside of cars," she said.
Embrey didn't respond to a request for comment, but in a legal filing wrote that Shares "was aware of the alleged dangerous and hazardous condition ... and by her own conduct, assumed the risk when failing to act in a reasonable manner, calling police, and attempting to verbally and physically (sic) confront the alleged car thief."
Geoff Berg, an attorney not affiliated with the case, said that Texas landlords are required to make individual apartment units secure with locks and deadbolts.
But he said they have no obligation to secure common areas, such as parking lots.
"You're not obligated to provide a gate. You're not obligated to install cameras ... but once you do them, you are under certain duties to do it right," Berg said.