Birthday Bloodshed

"LUBBOCK, TX — Shots rang out in a Central Lubbock neighborhood, leaving one man dead and a woman with serious injuries and sending a panic through a 3-year-old girl’s birthday party

"Police arrived within three minutes of Saturday's4:50 p.m.call of shots fired in a Lubbock house, said Lubbock Police Capt. Greg Stevens.

"`We’re looking at this as an attempted murder/suicide situation — the suicide being successful,` he said.

"Toni Lusk, 29, had called 911 reporting she’d been shot multiple times by her boyfriend in a house on 2204 25th Street.

"Forty-six-year-old Mack Jenkins, she told 911, fatally shot himself with a handgun after using the weapon on her.

"Police arrived to find the man dead inside the house.

"Lusk, who was seriously injured with multiple gunshot wounds, was taken by ambulance to University Medical Center.

"She was in serious but stable condition late Saturday, according to a hospital supervisor.

"A 4-year-old girl, likely Lusk’s daughter, was just outside the house when the shots were fired, Stevens said."

From LubbockOnline...