Remember our previous warning about 98th Street being the local equivalent of a Mario Kart track with more tumbleweeds and fewer safety rails? Well, it turns out we’re psychic. On March 20, 51-year-old Shawn Bowen was found dead in the 3000 block of 98th Street at 3:41 a.m., because apparently, that’s just the standard “South Lubbock Greeting” for anyone brave enough to be a pedestrian after the bars close.
It took the Lubbock Police Department a little bit of deep thinking and a full autopsy to confirm that, no, Bowen didn’t just spontaneously expire on the asphalt; he was actually mowed down by a vehicle. Enter 28-year-old Daniel King, who was scooped up Friday morning by the Texas Anti-Gang Center—because nothing says “upstanding neighbor” like having the specialized gang unit handle your traffic-related felony warrant.
King is currently cooling his heels in the Lubbock County Detention Center on a $100,000 bond, charged with Failure to Stop and Render Aid. Because in the Hub City, if you kill someone with your car in the middle of the night, the traditional etiquette is to just keep floorin’ it until the heat dies down or you get intercepted on Highway 87.
Is it really a South Lubbock commute if you aren’t dodging at least one person who treats the “render aid” part of the law like a “suggested tip” at a bad restaurant?
https://www.kcbd.com/2026/03/27/28-year-old-man-arrested-connection-with-fatal-hit-and-run-crash/
