City official: 5 dead in Robstown shooting

[TexasTowelie]

Source: Corpus Christi Caller-Times

ROBSTOWN — Five people are dead after a series of shootings.

A shooting at a Robstown nursing home Friday evening left three dead, City Secretary Herman Rodriguez said. Two more men were found dead in a home in the 4200 block of West State Highway 44 that was linked to the shooting, he said.

Officers received a call to the Retama Manor nursing home in the 600 block of East Avenue J around 7 p.m. When they arrived, they found two men and a woman dead.

Rodriguez said two men were found dead in the residence of one of the nursing home victims.

Read more: https://www.caller.com/story/news/crime/2018/07/27/shooting-reported-robstown-nursing-home/853795002/

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. Lordy, will this be the next wave?

Senior living is so ill-prepared for this.

[ancianita]

2. Are these "hits" on old folks with some money? This ain't random. Cui bono.

Why is some city secretary explaining this, anyway. It smells.

[TexasTowelie]

3. I guess that we can speculate on a number of theories.

It could be some type of elderly financial abuse or possibly a drug smuggling operation of some nature which might explain why the two people were found separate from the other three victims.

[ancianita]

4. Given the times we're in, speculation may not be too far fetched.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. "Rodriguez said the shooter is among the dead."

Now in the OP link. So, not a "hit".

[YOHABLO]

6. We live in an American Shit Hole of Guns. We've become desensitized and numb.

Everyday innocent people are being murdered. It just goes on and on and on.

[whistler162]

7. Ahhh... Corpus Christie Tx

RANT ON/ PLEASE PEOPLE... when posting events PLEASE tells us where they are happening... i.e. near Corpus Christie Texas or in Toronto Ontario Canada. /RANT OFF

[TexasTowelie]

8. Sorry about that, I see that they failed to mention the state earlier in the story.

The rules for LBN are somewhat specific so I normally just copy and paste without noticing that some additional information could be added for clarification.

[Scruffy1]

9. Over the years I've learned a lot of geography on DU.

I assume all of the posters simply didn't think that not everyone knows every town in their home state. I usually look it up.

[noneof_theabove]

10. I live here...

4 blocks west and 1 block south of Nursing Home.

The shooter has basically always been about 3 beans of burrito.

The business he owned/ran has always had ties with nefarious "customers" and other issues.

He shot mothers son and grandson at house beside business, drove about 2 miles east to
nursing home where parents reside, shot them and then himself.

Was is something of lucrative business deals or just a man off his meds?
We will possibly never know the why.

The town had one other multiple killing back in the 70's/80's.
A man walked in a local bar and shot several people.
When interviewed, all the other people were "in the bathroom".
Amazingly it was only a 1 stall bathroom for 1 person.

Lots of history here but the bad news is shouted from the roof tops.
99% plus is good.

[TexasTowelie]

11. I haven't been to Robstown in decades

since marching contest when I was in high school. My former director was the band director in Robstown during the early 70s. Robstown always had a rough reputation and that band director told us a couple of stories.

[displacedtexan]

12. My aunt and uncle owned the outdoor movie theater in Robstown.

It was a really big deal in the 50's and 60's because they showed a lot of Spanish language films. I visited them a few times, and I just remember how small the town was compared to Corpus.

This shooting news is so sad.