In a story that sounds like it was ripped straight from a late-night true-crime reenactment, 32-year-old Vanessa Perez has officially been sentenced to 10 years of probation for shooting a man in the groin back in February. The scene unfolded at a business on the 12200 block of University Avenue, where Perez showed up to confront the victim about his extracurricular activities with another woman. Instead of just arguing like a normal, emotionally unhinged adult, she went full telenovela and shot him square in the “groin area,” according to court documents—because apparently Lubbock love triangles come with live ammo now.
Not only did Perez admit to shooting the man, she also confessed to beating another woman at the scene and attempting to shoot her too—although the universe intervened in the form of a gun jam. So yes, in case you’re keeping score: one guy shot, one woman assaulted, one attempted second shooting, and one incredibly lucky malfunction.
Despite all that, Perez won’t be seeing the inside of a prison cell for long. Instead, she’s walking away with a decade of probation—because in Lubbock, apparently you can shoot a man in the crotch, confess to trying to shoot someone else, and still be told, “Now don’t do that again.”
The victim, by the way, managed to drive himself to the hospital with serious injuries, which really raises the question of whether Lubbock ERs even bother asking “What happened?” anymore, or if they just sigh, point to a clipboard, and say, “Groin or leg?”
At this point, is the gun jam the only thing in this story that actually worked the way it was supposed to?
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