Lubbock has always been a place where “friendly conversation” is a gamble, but Alex Flores, 28, really upped the ante last week. Apparently, a verbal disagreement near 34th and Avenue P—the city’s premier destination for late-night intellectual discourse—wasn’t enough. Instead of walking away like a normal person, Flores and his merry band of buddies decided to turn the neighborhood into a low-budget Fast & Furious sequel, chasing the victims in multiple vehicles.
Because being “blocked in” is the ultimate Lubbock hospitality move, the victims had to play bumper cars just to escape. Flores allegedly celebrated their departure by firing multiple rounds into their car, hitting the trunk and eventually catching one victim in the back. The victims’ car gave up the ghost a few blocks away on 49th Street, proving that even Lubbock’s machinery is as exhausted by the local drama as we are.
Naturally, Flores fled the scene in a 2014 Lincoln Navigator—because if you’re going to allegedly commit aggravated assault, you might as well do it in a vehicle that screams “I have mid-tier credit and a short fuse.” He was caught after police checked his “unrelated warrants” (a classic Lubbock starter pack) and found a Glock and matching ammo in his SUV. He’s currently chilling in the Lubbock County Detention Center on a $200,000 bond, which is probably more than that Navigator is worth.
Is it even a Lubbock Tuesday if you don’t get chased by a luxury SUV for accidentally making eye contact at a stoplight?
