On Monday afternoon, Clovis police responded to a 911 call about a 15-year-old boy suffering from a gunshot wound at a home on Chaparral Avenue. Officers and EMS arrived, rushed the teen to Plains Regional Medical Center, and by the end of the day he was dead. Fifteen years old. That’s the whole story, because that’s all the public gets.
As usual, the Major Crimes Unit has been “activated,” which is police-speak for something really bad happened and now we’re very serious about it. No suspect information. No context. No explanation of how a kid ends up shot in the middle of the afternoon. Just the same familiar paragraph recycled twice by local outlets.
Instead, the public service announcement part kicks in: call this number, use tip411, stay anonymous, say something if you saw something. The system works great—after someone is already dead. This is the part where responsibility is quietly handed off to the community, while the bigger questions remain politely unasked.
Another teenager gone, another vague press release, another reminder that in Clovis—and by extension the South Plains—gun violence involving kids is treated like bad weather: tragic, inevitable, and discussed only in the most minimal terms possible.
How many more “active investigations” does it take before anyone admits this isn’t just random anymore?
https://www.kcbd.com/2025/12/30/clovis-major-crimes-unit-investigating-homicide-15-year-old-boy/
https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/clovis/clovis-police-investigating-death-of-15-year-old/