In the latest episode of Only in Lubbock, Lavarius Scott pleaded guilty this week to Deadly Conduct in connection with a shooting at an afterhours club that left 17-year-old Dalequavion Barnard York dead. His punishment? Two years in prison, minus the 64 days he already spent in jail. The rest of the charges? Politely swept off the table as part of a plea deal.
According to court records and video evidence, this wasn’t some mysterious, fog-of-war chaos. Multiple people arrived together around 3 a.m., walked into a crowd, split up like it was choreography, and at least two of them fired into that crowd. Several people were hit. York was seen on video firing a gun too, then running, then collapsing. He later died at the scene.
After the shooting, three of the suspects calmly regrouped, hopped back in their car, and drove away—because nothing says “consequences” like a casual exit after spraying bullets into a crowd. They were later stopped by the Texas Anti-Gang Unit and taken into custody, which feels like the bare minimum response to a literal street-level gunfight.
And this isn’t even the first plea deal from this case. Another defendant, Dazaun Jones, pleaded guilty last year, got three years in prison, and had a murder charge dismissed as well. So yes, a teenager is dead, multiple shooters were involved, and the legal system’s final answer appears to be: “Let’s just wrap this up neatly and move on.”
Seventeen years old, multiple guns, a crowd full of people—and the takeaway is a couple of short sentences and some dismissed charges. But hey, at least everyone learned a valuable lesson about… something, right?