Police investigate fatal truck stop shooting

I know this happened at a Love's but it might as well have been at a 7-11... didn't involve truckers, per se. Still, gunfire near a bunch of sleeping drivers is scary.

 

yup...sounds like friggin Houston in general to me....I have had the displeasure of overnighting at that Loves before.....I can honestly say it doesn't surprise me in the least.....but I would expect a multiple homicide at the Pilot downtown Houston

 

Knowing the area and the truck stop I bet it was two drug dealers or a drug deal gone bad. McCarty St. is such a good place to hang out

 

or the world famous Paradise Truck Stop.

 

forgot about that one

 

Yeah but you know how the media is they fail to mention that fact. Just another misleading story that makes truckers lok bad when in reality they had nothing to do with it.

 

Any senior trucker knows that area is no good at all and people ought to know that in TX they dont play out there anyways (everybody packing!!) It's a shame that there wasn't a better distinction and the possibilties of a rookie driver being in that area were high. I'm grateful that none of our fellow brotheren were caught in this senseless stupidity. Stay away if possible from that area and continue to drive safe!

 

Did they really need to state that no truckers were involved in the incident? It's stated in the article that the one guy was driving a pick-up truck and the other guy blocked his departure in his car.

Now, had they simply said the one guy was driving a truck, without the "pick-up" clarifier, then there probably would have been an assumption that a big truck driver was involved. But I think they reported fairly.

 

Respectfully, I disagree - the general consensus in public is that we're all scumbags... and people's reading comprehension sucks - someone skims that article and sees a shooting/fatality at a truckstop, and thinks "those ###### truck drivers".

Additionally, many people don't distinguish between a "truck" and a "pickup"... thinking it doesn't matter what kind of "truck" we drive. The writer of the article didn't think about it, but if they would have thrown in that it happened at a convenience store at McCarty at Loop 610, I'd be happier - after all, a convenience store is all the place is to someone driving a pickup.