{"id":84831,"date":"2025-12-12T01:08:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/84831\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T01:08:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:08:51","slug":"lubbock-man-arrested-for-murder-after-shots-fired-call-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/84831\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock Man Arrested for Murder After Shots-Fired Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, the Lubbock County Sheriff&#8217;s Office announced that a Lubbock County man had been arrested after calling authorities about shooting a man on his property. Though some reports dispute that it was actually his property.<\/p>\n<p>One Person Dead, One Person Arrested<\/p>\n<p>Leslie Harston, 54, was arrested and charged with murder on Tuesday. The victim according to the Sheriff&#8217;s department was identified as Alfredo Franco Garza, 53. According to KAMC, Harston told authorities he had shot an unknown person.<\/p>\n<p>EverythingLubbock.com previously reported on Monday that LCSO responded to a shots-fired call around 2:40 p.m. Harston advised deputies that he had shot an unknown person who was on his property.<\/p>\n<p>Garza was taken to hospital and was pronounced dead upon arrival. Harston was taken to the hospital for minor injuries and is being held at the Lubbock County Detention Center.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation continues. We will provide updates as they come in.<\/p>\n<p>The Top 10 Most Wanted Gang Fugitives in Lubbock For December 2025<\/p>\n<p>Lubbock Police, Lubbock County Sheriff&#8217;s Department, and even authorities in other parts of Texas are looking for these fugitives who have been spotted before in the Lubbock area. Take a look and see if you recognize any of these fugitives. This list could be updated later in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Chad Hasty<\/p>\n<p>23 Things That We Need in Lubbock, TXWe asked our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/790KFYO\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook audience<\/a> what Lubbock is missing, and their responses left nothing to the imagination. <\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Tuesday, the Lubbock County Sheriff&#8217;s Office announced that a Lubbock County man had been arrested after calling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-84831","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84831","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=84831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}