It’s 2:30 a.m. in Lubbock. Most of us are either dreaming of a world without dust storms or regretting a late-night Spanky’s run, but 24-year-old Tadrian Ward was allegedly busy turning Avenue P into a low-budget action movie. According to the LPD, a verbal spat near 34th Street escalated into a multi-vehicle chase, because apparently, “agreeing to disagree” isn’t a concept that exists south of the loop.
Our local geniuses decided to block the road and chase the victims, eventually firing shots that hit a victim in the back. While they were busy playing Grand Theft Auto: Hub City, they forgot one minor detail: churches have cameras. Nothing says “bless your heart” quite like being caught on 4K surveillance by the neighborhood parish while you’re out violating at least three of the Ten Commandments.
But the real comedy gold is the getaway car. Ward was driving a red vehicle equipped with—wait for it—a GPS tracker. It’s hard to claim you weren’t at the scene of the crime when your car is literally live-pinging your location to the authorities like a digital breadcrumb trail of incompetence. To round out the “Forensics for Dummies” checklist, Ward also left his fingerprints on a buddy’s 2014 Lincoln Navigator.
When the cops finally caught up to him, Ward reportedly admitted he was driving the car that night but insisted he had “nothing to do with the incident.” It’s a bold strategy, Cotton—admitting you were the wheelman for a drive-by while pretending you were just there for the scenic views of Avenue P. He’s currently sitting in the Lubbock County Detention Center on a $200,000 bond, which is a pretty steep price for a ride that his own car narced on.
Is it really a Lubbock crime if it doesn’t involve a 12-year-old SUV, a GPS tracker you forgot existed, and a defense strategy that basically amounts to “I was just driving through the bullets”?
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