Al Morris, a police detective at the time, was attending an auto theft workshop at a hotel across from Luby’s Cafeteria on Central Texas Expressway in Killeen when he learned someone was shooting people inside the popular restaurant.
“I was coming back from lunch, and I walked up through the hotel there and heard (someone) say something was going on outside,” said Morris, who retired as a detective for the Killeen Police Department and now lives now in Florence, 20 miles south of Killeen. “I went outside and talked to some lady. I asked her, ‘What’s going on?’
“She said, ‘There’s a guy in Luby’s shooting and killing everybody.’
“I said, ‘Oh, my God.’ I didn’t have my gun with me, so I went out to my truck and got it, and my walkie talkie. I ran over to Luby’s and I could hear gunshots inside. I went around toward the front entrance and that’s when I saw the pickup truck had drove into the business.”
