A Lubbock jury finally took a break from debating which Mexican food joint has the best watered-down salsa to find 42-year-old David Minor guilty of Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon this week. The “deadly weapon” in question? A loaded gun he shoved into a child’s mouth. Because nothing says “Honor thy Father” quite like tasting gunpowder before bedtime.
Minor’s defense attorney, Jessie Mendez, tried the bold strategy of suggesting the kid might be lying or that this was all just a misunderstood form of “discipline.” Apparently, in the legal world of Lubbock, there’s a very fine, blurry line between a “time-out” and a felony-level firearm violation. Mendez even pointed out there were no photos of the gun in the child’s mouth—because, as we all know, if you don’t post your trauma to Instagram with a “blessed” filter, it didn’t actually happen.
The trial pulled back the curtain on a domestic situation that makes Shameless look like The Brady Bunch. Minor wasn’t just a one-trick pony; his repertoire allegedly included throwing knives, beating kids with sticks, shooting a child in the eye with a BB gun, and—our personal favorite—forcing them to drink hot sauce if they dared to snitch to their mother. He even reportedly practiced “suicide by cop” with an airsoft gun in his spare time, because why just be a domestic tyrant when you can also be a drama queen?
Now the jury gets to decide if Minor spends the next five years or the rest of his life in a state-funded room. Given that court records show he allegedly targeted a child’s genitals for sport and told his victims to blame “trampolines” for their popped-out bones, the “community standards” of the Hub City are really being put to the test here. We like to brag about our “friendly frontier” spirit, but apparently, for some people, that just means being neighborly enough to move out for two weeks whenever CPS starts sniffing around.
Is it really a Lubbock childhood if it doesn’t involve a little light torture, a “trampoline accident,” and a lifelong fear of condiments?
https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/lubbock-man-found-guilty-of-horrific-child-abuse/
