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| Megan Kirkland |
Former Roscoe resident, student, and Plowgirl Megan Kirkland, 19, has been identified as the girl shot and killed at a big Saturday night party on Fulwiler Road just northwest of Abilene. She was an unfortunate victim as the shots fired were apparently not intended for her.
In a KTXS-TV news interview, a witness said a fight at the late-night party led to the shooting that killed her. It started after a fight broke out, and someone fired warning shots in the air hoping to stop the fight.
“A guy shot up in the air three times,” the witness said. Then, according to KTXS, he saw another male pull out a gun and shoot twice, causing people to start to panic before the third shot was fired and hit Megan. He said there were about 70 people at the party. She was found at about 3am early Sunday morning by officers from the Taylor County Sheriff’s Office.
Megan was a student at Roscoe before moving with her family to Abilene, where she graduated from Wylie High. She had recently enrolled at Cisco College. She was the daughter of Lee and Tessa Kirkland.
The incident is under investigation by the Taylor County Sheriff’s Office with the Tye and Merkel Police Department assisting.
The KTXS-TV news release can be accessed here.
PLOWBOYS SCRIMMAGE FORSAN HERE TOMORROW
The JV teams will kick things off at 5:00pm with the Varsity squads starting at 6:00.
Forsan is a 2A Division 1 school in the same district this year as Hawley, Stamford, Anson, Colorado City, and Haskell. Texas Football predicts them to finish fourth.
They were only 3-7 last year. However, they return 9 starters on both offense and defense, so they will be improved and ready to give the Plowboys some tough competition. They are led by QB Major Stockton and RB Chris Mendez.
The Plowboys are led by QB Antonio Aguayo on offense and LB Kolten Hope on defense.
KOLTEN HOPE FEATURED IN BIG COUNTRY PREPS ARTICLE
Plowboy linebacker and all-purpose utility man Kolten Hope has been featured in an article on Big Country Preps, an online publication covering football in the Big Country.
The article appeared on August 14, and part of it may be accessed here.
Here’s hoping Kolten lives up to the hype and then some!
NOLAN COUNTY SOLAR FARM FEATURED IN ARTICLE
It’s not specifically Roscoe news, but an interesting article on a big solar farm in southeast Nolan County is in the current issue of Texas Observer magazine. It is available here.
COVID-19 NOW 3RD LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH IN U.S.
On a national scale, Covid-19 is now the third leading cause of death in the United States after heart attacks and cancer, and Americans are 8 times as likely to die from Covid-19 as Europeans. Over 171,000 Americans have now died from the disease.
In Texas, the situation also remains serious, as the state has averaged over 200 Covid-19 deaths a day for almost three weeks. A total of 10,250 Texans have now died of Covid-19, including 1,540 in the past week. However, hospitalizations continue to fall as there are 6,210 statewide compared to 7,216 a week ago.
The news is better in the Big Country, where the rate of new cases continues to decrease, as do the numbers of hospitalizations. Taylor County has 369 active cases (501 last week), and Abilene currently has 19 Covid-19 hospitalizations (21 last week). There have been 23 total Covid-19 deaths. The numbers are more serious in San Angelo, where Tom Green County has 776 active cases, 47 hospitalizations, and 45 deaths (with 11 of those from other counties).
Nolan County currently has 19 active cases (down from 22 last week) out of 142 positives on the year. 121 of those have recovered and 2 died. Mitchell County has 13 active cases (24 last week) out of 69 on the year with 57 recovered and 1 death, plus 447 active inmate and 14 employee cases in Wallace Unit. Fisher County has 14 active cases (8 last week) out of 42 on the year with 27 recovered and 1 death. However, Scurry County still has 78 active cases (63 last week) out of 134 on the year with 55 recovered and 1 death. The prison system there still has 253 active cases with 0 recoveries.
These are the Big Country’s county totals for the year as of yesterday (with a week ago in parentheses): Jones, 603 (600); Erath, 603 (555); Scurry, 507 (488); Brown, 419 (398); Howard, 217 (177); Comanche, 182 (150); Runnels, 168 (129); Nolan, 141 (136); Stephens, 130 (49); Eastland, 98 (79); Mitchell, 70 (68); Knox, 62 (60); Callahan, 56 (47); Haskell, 53 (43); Coke, 43 (43); Coleman, 37 (24), Fisher, 36 (29); Shackelford, 20 (19); Stonewall, 7 (5); Throckmorton, 4 (4); Kent, 4 (3).
Selected west Texas counties yesterday (with a week ago in parentheses): Lubbock, 6,542 (6,222); Midland, 2,948 (2,676); Ector (Odessa), 2,561 (2,439); Tom Green (San Angelo), 1,882 (1,760); Wichita (Wichita Falls), 1.149 (932).
Texas now has had 550,232 cases (500,620 a week ago), 124,079 of them active (133,598 a week ago), and 10,250 deaths (8,710 a week ago).
WEATHER REPORT: MORE BLAZING HEAT, THEN A BREAK
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| Clouds on Sunday afternoon. |
The thirteen-day period from August 4 through August 16 had only two days that didn’t reach the century mark, i.e., August 8 and 9, and those two days had highs of 98° and 99° respectively. Every day from August 10 through August 16 had highs of at least 100° with the hottest being August 12 through August 15, when the highs were 104°, 104°, 108°, and 105°. By contrast, Monday and yesterday were much milder at 92° and 94°.
The forecast for the coming week is for continued heat, just not quite as hot as it's been. Today’s high is projected to be 96°, tomorrow’s 95°, Friday’s 98°, Saturday’s 99°, and Sunday’s 98°. Skies will be partly cloudy until Saturday, after which they’ll be clear and sunny with light breezes from the south or southeast. Morning lows will be in the low to mid-seventies.
Once again, there is no rain in the forecast as the drouth continues.
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