Well, folks, it looks like the Lubbock Police Department operates on the same internal clock as a hungover college student after a long weekend. The crack team over at the Major Crimes Unit has finally looked at the calendar, realized it’s mid-July, and decided to ask the public for help regarding a mass shooting that happened all the way back on July 5th.
According to the LPD, officers rolled up to the 1300 block of East 17th Street around 1:25 a.m. on the morning after the Fourth of July. Apparently, some people couldn’t tell the difference between standard firecrackers and actual gunfire, because officers arrived to find multiple people suffering from actual gunshot wounds. It took a solid ten days of top-tier police deduction before the department decided that maybe, just maybe, they should check if anyone saw anything.
But don’t worry, they aren’t asking you to risk your safety for free. If you happen to know who turned East 17th Street into a shooting gallery, LPD is dangling a staggering, life-altering reward of up to $1,000 through CrimeLine. Because nothing says “we value community safety” quite like offering just enough cash to cover a single month’s rent at a moldy apartment complex off Slide Road in exchange for snitching on violent criminals.
Who needs a prompt police investigation when you can just crowdsource your detective work for the price of a used riding lawnmower ten days after the fact?
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