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Gunfight In Palmview, Texas
A "Trespassers Will Be Shot" sign stood in the front lawn of a residence here where Hidalgo County Sheriff's deputies worked late Monday night to investigate an alleged gun battle.Sheriff Lupe Trevino confirmed investigators were now trying to link reports of several shots fired in the neighborhood at around 9:20 p.m. Monday to an unidentified shooting victim dropped off at Mission Regional Medical Center soon after. A resident at a home on the Farmosa Avenue cul-de-sac in Palmview told deputies he used his own assault rifle to defend himself after noticing several armed and masked men approaching his house on his video surveillance cameras, Trevino said. Signs in the house suggested the resident injured at least one suspect in what the sheriff called an "extensive firefight." Not long after that alleged incident, an unidentified Hispanic male was dropped off at the Mission hospital with two gunshot wounds to his abdomen, the sheriff said. Investigators are now working to find any connections between the shooting victim and the Palmview resident's story, along with a third emergency call in Mission. There, Trevino said deputies responded to a call of someone following a green Hummer linked to the shooting site until it stopped at a mobile home in Mission near the corner of North Inspiration Road and Mile 6 Road. After searching the home, investigators found ski masks and other "crime paraphernalia" before they spotted a man hiding beneath the mobile home. A woman there told police her son had been using the Hummer, though Trevino explained the hiding man was not her son. "Our job now is to link what happened (on Farmosa Avenue) to the shooting victim, the man we apprehended and the ski masks and paraphernalia," the sheriff said. He added a broken door, bullet holes throughout the hallway and bathroom and "clear signs" of at least one injury indicated an exchange of gunfire inside the home. Investigators will try to collect surveillance footage from Mission Regional and stores nearby to see if they can identify the vehicle and driver who reportedly left the shooting victim at the hospital. Neither the Palmview resident nor a few other individuals interviewed by authorities at the scene reported any injuries. Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-01-11 |
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