LUBBOCK, Texas \u2014 The Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office has identified the victim of a recent shooting as 53-year-old Alfredo Franco Garza. The suspect, 54-year-old Leslie Harston, was arrested following the incident.<\/p>\n
The shooting occurred in the 6100 block of E CR 7260, where deputies responded to a shots-fired call at approximately 2:38 p.m., according to the Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office. The caller reported shooting an unknown person on their property. Upon arrival, deputies found the gunshot victim, who was transported to a local hospital in life-threatening condition and later pronounced deceased. The caller was also taken to the hospital for evaluation of minor injuries.<\/p>\n
The investigation led officers to request a warrant for Harston, who was arrested and is currently held in the Lubbock County Detention Center on a murder charge with a $250,000 bond, stated the source. The investigation remains ongoing, and the Lubbock Metropolitan Special Crimes Unit is involved in examining the circumstances of the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas \u2014 The Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office has identified the victim of a recent shooting as 53-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169,223,430],"class_list":{"0":"post-128011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-north-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}