At 3:22 a.m. on July 5th, Lubbock police rolled up to what sounds like a scene from a bad action movie: a fight involving up to 100 people in the 2900 block of Parkway Drive. Because nothing says “holiday weekend in Lubbock” like a small war breaking out in a neighborhood street.
Seventeen-year-old Terrence Hastings Jr. was identified as the suspect who fired shots during the chaos. An officer chased him, ordered him to show his hands, but Hastings pointed his weapon toward others instead. The officer fired, Hastings kept reaching for the gun, and the officer fired again. Hastings was pronounced dead on the scene.
Meanwhile, five other people were injured and hauled off to hospitals—though, somehow, not because of the officer’s bullets. With resources maxed out, nearly every cop in the city was tied up managing the scene while deputies and state troopers were called in as reinforcements. Day shift was even dragged in early just to keep the rest of Lubbock from falling apart.
A hundred people fighting at 3 a.m., gunfire in the mix, cops from every corner of town rushing in—Lubbock really knows how to throw a block party.
