It’s 2:30 on a Monday morning. In normal cities, people are fast asleep, dreading the upcoming workweek. But this is the Hub City, baby, which means the 2100 block of North Avenue J was just getting its second wind. Lubbock police rolled up to a residence expecting a standard-issue suicide call, only to discover that the night’s festivities had actually upgraded to a double-feature murder-suicide.
According to the local authorities, 38-year-old Christopher Robertson was already chilling at the home when 25-year-old Riley Moorhead decided to drop by for an unannounced, extremely permanent visit. In a classic display of Lubbock conflict resolution, Moorhead showed up, immediately shot Robertson, and then decided to turn the gun on himself. Because why try to talk things out when you can just turn a North Lubbock neighborhood into a live-action true crime podcast episode?
Robertson didn’t even make it off the property, dying right there at the scene. Moorhead, meanwhile, managed to cling to life just long enough to secure an expensive, entirely futile ambulance ride to University Medical Center, where doctors eventually gave up and pronounced him dead too.
Who needs a cup of coffee to kickstart your Monday morning when you have the soothing, rhythmic sounds of northside gunfire to wake you up for the week?
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