KRISTINE GALVAN
Reporter

HOUSTON - A just-released mug shot of a burglary suspect captured more than just a self confessed thief.

The picture of Joaquin Carlon was snapped moments after he witnessed a Humble Police Officer shoot and kill his partner in crime, his own brother.

"Just one loud bang and that was it," Carlon said, after he made bail. "Glass shatters and (my brother's) face just..."

Community activist Quannel X stopped Carlon before he finished his statement.

With Quannel at his side, Carlon gave his version of what happened outside Deerbrook Mall on Monday.

Shortly after the shooting that killed Carlon's brother Esteban, Humble Police said one of their own accidently shot and killed the 23-year-old, when the Carlon brothers tried to leave a crime scene.

Joaquin Carlon admits before police arrived, he and Esteban were breaking into a truck.

He says Esteban jumped into the truck he was driving, and urged him to drive off when he saw police.

But unlike police accounts, Carlon insists he kept the truck in park.

"My brother tells me again, 'Go!' That's when I looked at him and next thing you know the glass shatters and his face crumbled up and I was like man, excuse my language but what the (expletive) happened, you know?," Carlon said. "And that's when (the police) get me and when they open the car too. Like the (police) that were right there trying to get me, they hesitated too. Like whoa, what? Should we get him? Like they didn't really know what to do. And the other guy, the one that shot my brother, man, I see the look on his face too. It was like, like 'Damn, what did I do? I shouldn't have done that.' I don't know man. He knew he was in the wrong.

Police say the truck had been reported stolen.

On Making Life Changes:

"I promised my brother a while back, if anything would've ever happened to him, I was going to be there for his girls. And now he has another one on the way. I see all the grief that's come to my family. I can't continue doing what I've been doing.

I've been in (jail) twice already and I pleaded guilty for both of my cases. When I know I'm wrong, I'm gonna admit it. Just like what I'm fighting now. Eventually I know I'm going to plea guilty to it, cause I know it was wrong."

On The Officer Who Shot His Brother:

"The biggest step for me is to forgive that guy and I did. I have no hatred for him. He was (long pause) I don't know why (long pause) I don't know, man. I just feel justice has to be done in whatever way possible, whatever way the law, things just should be done man."

What's Next?

A spokesman for the Humble Police Department is not saying anything about this case until the investigation is complete.

The district attorney's office is also investigating, but a spokesperson for that agency says it will be months before this case goes to a grand jury.

The officer involved in the shooting is represented by Paul Aman, the same lawyer who represented Bellaire Police Sergeant Jeff Cotton. Cotton is the officer who shot and wounded Robby Tolan outside Tolan's parents house back on New Year’s Eve 2008. Cotton's case went to trial but he was found not guilty of aggravated assault.

Aman and his assistant say they're certain the Humble officer will be cleared of any charges, and they don’t even think this will make it past a grand jury.

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