Sheriff Larry Smith of The Smith County Sheriff's Office said "These are the dreaded calls you receive in the middle of the night" when it comes to hearing that one of his officers had to draw their weapon on a suspect.
When it comes to preventing a potentially deadly situation, we normally don't hear about it but in this instance, we have to take a moment to show love to a local police department for getting ahead of problem early.
A Lubbock father goes to pick his son up for his scheduled child visitation ends up being gunned down on the front porch of where his son was supposed to be.