User blog comment:The Milkman/Grand Theft Auto V Review: Everything We Wanted?/@comment-26435037-20131016122653/@comment-5056135-20140616214044

If you shoot them in the car, you are less likely to get a bounty placed on you. The reason why I said "less-likely" is because one time, I shot and killed the driver in his Stratum and stole it, then I got a text message about ten seconds later saying "you took my ride! I'm going to have you smoked", then BOOM, "A bounty of $9000 has been placed on you".