“Many teachers felt that no matter how creative they were in the classroom, it wouldn’t make a difference anyway. It was incidents such as these that gave Odessa its legacy.”įriday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream The startled owner, hearing the commotion, did what he thought was only appropriate: he took out his gun and shot Price dead.
His fatal error came when he tried to break into a house across the street. Two men were dead and two wounded when Price made his escape. By the time Odessa police detective Jerry Smith got there the place looked like something out of the Wild West, an old-fashioned shoot-out at the La Casita apartment complex with poker chips and cards and bullet holes all over the dining room. He barricaded himself behind a bookcase while the players he was trying to kill hid under the poker table.
Price, apparently insulted by such a charge, went to the bathroom and then came out shooting with his thirty-eight. A year later, Odessa made national news again when someone made the fateful mistake of accusing an escaped convict from Alabama named Leamon Ray Price of cheating in a high-stakes poker game. Most agreed that was a pretty high number, but mention of gun control was as popular as a suggestion to change the Ten Commandments. “In 1982, the thirty-seven murders that took place inside Ector County gave Odessa the distinction of having the highest murder rate in the country.
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