I'm back to sleeping in my recliner and was awake at 5 AM yesterday morning having just returned from a trip to the bathroom. I heard a tap, tap sound that soundel like some one kicking a door somewhere out side. Then I heard another tap, tap and got up to investigate. After quickly looking out north and east windows and seeing nothing I went to a south window and before I got there heard two more tap, taps and then three quick ones and it soaked in that is was gunfire somewhere south of me. I looked out and could see a vehicle with it's lights on facing east at a large metal building on the second property south of me. I went outside and saw the vehicle turn around and head for the county road . It went behind a house and I could no longer see it but could hear it leave going south toward town in a hurry. Then yelling by a man and what what sounded like a woman and kids screaming started. In just a minute or so I could hear faint sounds of sirens from the direction of town and three law enforcement vehicles arrived followed quickly after by an ambulance, then another ambulance, and finally, a third. Two more law enforcement also showed up close behind them and during all this another LE vehicle came from some where north at high speed and continued on south. All I could see was lights as it is still dark at that hour. It didn't take but just a few minutes for the first ambulance to leave going toward town and soon we heard a helicopter fly by heading northeast. The hospital has a helicopter they use to transport critical case to Lubbock so I suppose someone was seriously wounded.
There won't be a paper published until tomorrow and I don't do social media so I have no idea about details. This has been reputed to be a drug cooking and dealing place for years. It it also kind of a little Mexico as the owners have moved in three trailer houses and a small camper besides their home that people live in. It's also been a knock down, drag out, screaming, cursing fight place between men and women for years and the SO is a frequent visitor there. Nothing seems to change, only get worse. If not for this bunch this would be a quite, kind of sleepy place even with the influx of new homes in the last few years.
