Set your alarms, Hub City, because nothing says “restful night’s sleep” quite like the soothing, midnight echo of gunfire. Around 12:15 a.m. on Thursday, the Lubbock Police Department had to interrupt their late-night routine to roll out to The Landing at Pinewood Park apartments near 4th and Slide Road. Because honestly, what’s a week in Lubbock without at least one apartment complex transforming into an impromptu shooting range?
Upon arrival, officers discovered one person who had suffered “moderate injuries.” In local news-speak, that means they’re alive enough to appreciate the impending ambulance bill but injured enough to have their Thursday morning thoroughly ruined. The victim was promptly transported to a local hospital, where they can spend their recovery time pondering the sheer joy of living off one of Lubbock’s busiest, most chaotic thoroughfares.
As for the person who actually pulled the trigger? Oh, they’re long gone. To the surprise of absolutely no one, police have confirmed zero suspect arrests so far. It seems our local gunslingers are excellent at playing hide-and-seek in the West Texas wind. But don’t worry, the media assures us this is a “developing story,” which is just journalist code for “we have no new information, but please keep clicking our links.”
But hey, look on the bright side—at least the sound of the gunfire might temporarily distract the neighbors from the soul-crushing noise of Slide Road traffic and the existential dread of living here, right?
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