Everything's Deadlier in Texas...

From the Associated Press - June 20th, 2007

AUSTIN, Texas - A crowd attacked and killed a passenger in a vehicle that had struck and injured a child, police said Wednesday.

Police believe 2,000 to 3,000 people were in the area for a Juneteenth celebration when the attack occurred Tuesday night. The man who was killed had been trying to stop the group from attacking the vehicle's driver when the crowd turned on him, authorities said.

The Austin Police Department identified the victim as David Rivas Morales, 40. The child was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Police spokeswoman Toni Chovonetz said she had no further information, including how many people were involved.

The driver, who was able to get away, is cooperating with investigators, police said.

Juneteenth marks the day Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston in 1865 to share news of the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves two years earlier on Jan. 1, 1863.

Notice the kid was treated for non-life threatening injuries. Imagine what would've happened had the child died!

When I was a kid, one day I was out with my Mom as she was shopping. I was in the shopping cart, and I was hounding her about one thing or another when she get got fed up and without looking backhanded me, resulting in a bloody nose. Now I know she didn't mean it, and before the calls to CPS begin, it was over 30 years ago. I will now thank God every day that we weren't in Texas at the time.