Posted on 01/11/2011 7:22:12 AM PST by SwinneySwitch
PALMVIEW -- 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.
Just another quiet night in the Valley.
I wish headlines with the name of a city would include the state for those of us who are not geography experts.
Oh goodness! This will be another huge call for gun control—they’re probably going to try to disarm all the Mexicans in the valley/sarc....
Oh goodness! This will be another huge call for gun control—they’re probably going to try to disarm all the Mexicans in the valley/sarc....
Valle ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
Illegal aliens just doing jobs Americans refuse to do.
A Hummer at a trailer house? Deputies might want to run the ven number on that.
Move along. Quit asking questions. We have the situation here under control.
Happy New year,
DHS
¡Feliz Año Nuevo, amigo!
Gee, I wonder if drugs were involved?
~smirk~
That is a major problem for local news websites all over the US, especially if they are located in Riverside (46 States), Centerville (45 States), Fairview (43 States), Franklin (42 States), Midway (40 States), Fairfield, Pleasant Valley, and Troy (39 States), Liberty and Union (38 States).
Springfield, by the way, is only in 35 States.
“The Tri-State Area”, and “The Twin Cities” is no help.
I will note that this has annoyed me for a while, but I noticed at the top of the page was a stylized Texas flag.
To quote the Bud Light ads: “Here we go...”
Here’s an old one:
“Fort Pitt, That’s It”
Yes...nothing strange about that here. I just heard about the 30 bundles of Marijuana that were confiscated from a truck this morning by a Progreso Husband and wife team. Nothing new here.
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