Allegedly intoxicated man steals pickup with 4-year-old inside, crashes into pole in northwest Houston

According to police, a man was driving erratically in the parking lot of a Valero gas station on North Shepherd Drive and Pinemont Drive. A store clerk told police the man appeared to be intoxicated and had nearly hit several other customers with a silver pickup truck. Police pursued the man and put down spike strips on the road and blew out the front tires of the pickup. The suspect then stole a blue pickup truck that a driver had left running next to a gas pump, in which a 4-year-old son was still sitting in the back seat. The driver eventually slammed into a pole on the side of the North Freeway feeder road. The child was strapped into a car seat, but still bumped his head in the accident.