{"id":101702,"date":"2016-05-10T16:47:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T16:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/05\/10\/tucked-behind-the-community-center-here-in-killeen\/"},"modified":"2018-09-02T07:23:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T07:23:26","slug":"tucked-behind-the-community-center-here-in-killeen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/05\/10\/tucked-behind-the-community-center-here-in-killeen\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-101702 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/05\/10\/tucked-behind-the-community-center-here-in-killeen\/attachment\/101703\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tumblr_o6yu0zfFgn1rftii4o1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tumblr_o6yu0zfFgn1rftii4o1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tumblr_o6yu0zfFgn1rftii4o1_1280-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tumblr_o6yu0zfFgn1rftii4o1_1280-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tumblr_o6yu0zfFgn1rftii4o1_1280-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tumblr_o6yu0zfFgn1rftii4o1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tumblr_o6yu0zfFgn1rftii4o1_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/05\/10\/tucked-behind-the-community-center-here-in-killeen\/attachment\/101704\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tumblr_o6yu0zfFgn1rftii4o2_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tumblr_o6yu0zfFgn1rftii4o2_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tumblr_o6yu0zfFgn1rftii4o2_1280-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tumblr_o6yu0zfFgn1rftii4o2_1280-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tumblr_o6yu0zfFgn1rftii4o2_1280-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tumblr_o6yu0zfFgn1rftii4o2_1280-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tumblr_o6yu0zfFgn1rftii4o2_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Tucked behind the community center here in Killeen is a memorial to the often unremembered <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luby%27s_shooting\" target=\"_blank\">1991 Luby\u2019s Shooting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The perpetrator drove his truck into a crowded restaurant, got out and started shooting. He was killed in a shootout with police.<\/p>\n<p>It was the third largest mass shooting in the US, and the largest that didn\u2019t occur in a school (and isn\u2019t that a whole secondary level of awful). 23 were killed, 27 wounded. 14 of those killed were women, and it was reported that he specifically targeted females.<\/p>\n<p>This shooting is what brought concealed carry to Texas, as one of the survivors campaigned for it. She\u2019d had a gun in her car, but hadn\u2019t carried it into the restaurant and believed that if she\u2019d had it, maybe she could have stopped him. It was signed into law in 1995 by then Governor George W Bush.<\/p>\n<p>So yes, that\u2019s two shootings twenty years apart that this town\u2019s known for. This one and the Fort Hood shooting in 2009. The memorial to the Fort Hood shooting victims is at a different location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tucked behind the community center here in Killeen is a memorial to the often unremembered 1991 Luby\u2019s Shooting. The perpetrator drove his truck into a crowded restaurant, got out and started shooting. He was killed in a shootout with police. It was the third largest mass shooting in the US, and the largest that didn\u2019t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/05\/10\/tucked-behind-the-community-center-here-in-killeen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[12633,261,1650,3165,1674,828],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101705,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101702\/revisions\/101705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}