SIERRA BLANCA, Texas — The shooting looms over this West Texas town like a storm cloud in the spring.
“We don’t want to talk about it because we don’t want to be defined by it, but this really happened,” said Bill Addington, a resident of Sierra Blanca, about 90 miles southeast of El Paso. “We have to face the facts, because there will be more shootings.”
Addington was referring to the killing of a man and wounding of a woman last September at a reservoir known as Fivemile tank, just miles from the Texas-Mexico border. Both victims were migrants, part of a larger group that had crossed the border.
