Bluntzer News

A few South Texas Trail Riders already had bumps and scrapes on the first day of their ride after some horses were startled by a swirling helicopter, semitractor air brake blasts and a train whistle, the trail boss said.

A 43-year-old man was fatally shot in the face Monday night at a mobile home park north of Bluntzer.

Robert Nicholes Welch was found slumped over, dead, on the front porch of his trailer at 6267 Farm-to-Market Road 666 near Bluntzer around 9:30 p.m. after Nueces County Sheriff's Deputies responded to calls from neighbors who reported shots fired in the area, said sheriff's Capt.