Sheriff's deputies investigate "firefight" in Palmview (Texas border area)

[Tejas]

http://www.themonitor.com/articles/sheriff-46129-deputies-palmview.html

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.

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."

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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.






Good shoot!

[jody]

1. "assault rifle"? n/t

[MineralMan]

2. Extensive firefight and one person possibly injured.

The two things don't seem to go together to me. Sounds like a lot of incompetent people with firearms to me.