Ah, Sunday in the Hub City. While most of us were arguing over the last basket of rolls at Texas Roadhouse, the fine folks over on 38th Street were busy turning a routine property retrieval into a scene from COPS. Because in Lubbock, you don’t just move out of a house—you survive it.
Let’s talk about that world-class LPD response time. The call for an “officer standby” went out at 12:13 p.m., presumably because the person moving out knew their ex, 31-year-old Westley Russell, wasn’t going to hand over the air fryer without a fight. The officer finally rolled up at 1:48 p.m. That’s a solid 95 minutes of waiting. In that time, you could have driven to Amarillo, realized it’s even worse than Lubbock, and driven halfway back before the law even put their car in park.
Once the officer actually arrived to witness the “civil” dispute, Russell decided to live up to his six previous law enforcement encounters by getting “extremely agitated.” Nothing says “I’m definitely the stable one in this breakup” like grabbing a handgun and pointing it at your ex’s brother and a police officer. The officer, a 12-year veteran who likely realized this was going to involve way more paperwork than he signed up for on a Sunday, fired his weapon and sent Russell on a high-speed ambulance ride to UMC with at least two new speed holes in him.
In a move that is peak Lubbock stubbornness, Russell reportedly refused medical help while bleeding out. Maybe he was worried about the UMC bill, or maybe he just didn’t want to give the LPD the satisfaction of a “thank you” for the first aid. Either way, he eventually made it to the hospital and then straight to the Lubbock County Detention Center, where he’s currently sitting on a $25,000 bond for aggravated assault.
So now, the Metropolitan Special Crimes Unit is investigating, the officer is on administrative leave, and Westley has a fresh mugshot to add to his collection. At least the person moving out doesn’t have to worry about getting their security deposit back anymore—that house is officially a crime scene now.
If you’re going to act like a GTA NPC, maybe don’t do it in front of a guy who’s been on the force for 12 years and has clearly lost his patience for Sunday afternoon drama.
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