Welcome back to another thrilling episode of Lubbock’s Finest Criminal Minds. This week, a Lubbock County grand jury finally got around to indicting 42-year-old Tommy Rios for a fatal April shooting. Because nothing says “vibrant local nightlife” quite like a Friday night verbal altercation outside a convenience store in the 5900 block of Avenue P.
According to police records, Rios and 37-year-old Jonathan Trevino were having a casual chat inside the store before taking their disagreement outside at 10:30 p.m. Instead of settling things like civilized adults—or even with a standard West Texas parking lot fistfight—Rios allegedly pulled a gun, shot Trevino, and fled the scene. Trevino later died at UMC. Don’t worry, though; the elite investigators at the Lubbock Texas Anti-Gang Center tracked Rios down the very next day after conducting “hours of surveillance” a whole three blocks away on 59th Street. Truly a criminal mastermind at work.
But here is the real Hub City kicker: police records show Rios literally stabbed Trevino back in 2024. That is right, folks. The local justice system worked so beautifully over the last two years that Rios was completely free to wander into the exact same convenience store, run into the exact same guy he already tried to slice up, and comfortably upgrade his weaponry to finish the job.
He is currently sitting in the Lubbock County Detention Center on a $300,000 bond, so I suppose we can all sleep a little easier knowing it only takes a stabbing, a shooting, and a formal grand jury indictment to finally get a guy banned from the neighborhood Quick-Stop.
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