Welcome to Rush Hour in Kerrville,
the history filled town is best known for
the Guadalupe River that snakes through
it, and a celebrity resident
author Kinky Friedman won town.
Hot Spot is a local curio shop
with a soda fountain.
Though it's cliche its people are
described as salt of the Earth.
They are hard workers, family
oriented,
churchgoing, very
the family values, very down to earth.
Her county is conservative.
A Republican stronghold of thirty
nine thousand residents, more than 80
percent are Anglo, about sixteen and a
half percent Hispanic, around two percent
African-American.
Average income just over twenty
three thousand dollars a year.
It's into this low key setting.
The high profile Darlie Routier trial
will be held a case involving allegations
of a mother killing two son, a family
allegedly living beyond its means.
The story is already making headlines in
Incaviglia.
I hate to see it come here.
I don't like to sit down here and and
have people make that decision.
Jolin and Clinton Harris run a tobacco
shop that's been here for decades.
Their reaction echoes many here.
The only news about kids they want to
hear
is when soccer practice starts.
But the city is no stranger to murder
trial.
The last time this small Texas town saw a
capital murder trial was about a year
ago. It involved a man accused
of killing his mother in law and father
in law. A jury found him guilty
and sentenced him to death.
This courtroom is already reserved for
the trial, and jurors who fill these
seats will eventually hold rooters
fate in their hands.
Texas News 5.