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Yes.
46 years ago was the first. I was walking with a friend through a local shopping area. The door to a small indy liquor store was propped open,
on the floor lay a man crying and calling for his mother...... he had tried to rob the store and the owner shot the BG in the stomach. My friend and
I got there before the police of ambulance. It happened about 30 seconds before we walked by.
Jump to 1972. In a folk singing type restaurant/bar (yea they used to have those back in the day). Two men arguing at the bar. Suddenly pop,pop.
One man backed away and slowly slid to the floor. He too had been shot in either the stomach or abdomen area...... he simply said "you shot me Ray,
you shot me". Turns out, they were brothers.
Fast forward to 1992 - 1995 (I don't remember the specific year) I was married w/ kids. My wife and I had taken our kids to the State Fair of Texas.
Super big mistake because it was HS day at the fair. Evening set in, we were exiting the midway with one kid walking and one in a stroller. Appeared to be gang types filling the aisles and the Gang Unit Popo were becoming more apparent, so the wife and I were trying to leave asap. Exiting closest to the rodeo area. One or two muffled pops, screams, kids running away making a circle around the kid that got shot. We very quickly left. Here's what's strange.... my wife had a asthma attack due to dust, going into the animal barn etc. She was taken to Baylor. Turns out the kid that got shot was in the next bed, curtain separated them. We could hear everything. The kids grandmom showed up and she chewed his rear-end off like a she bear. Interesting conversation.
Several years passed. Several weird encounters with weird folks. Finally, I get threatened by a 18-22yo kid at a gas station, "what are you looking at you white Mister Ferguson, I ought to pop a cap in your rear"..... within 7 days I had enrolled into a CHL class .... and the rest is history.

**Edit: BTW, we searched the papers for a crime report or story regarding the shooting on the Midway. We found none.