Comer, from Louisiana, was convicted in a human trafficking conspiracy after prosecutors showed the court photos from the March 13, 2023 crash. He was hauling nearly a dozen undocumented immigrants when a state trooper tried to pull him over, and he took off at speeds topping 100 miles per hour.
He streamed part of the chase on social media as it happened. The pursuit ended when Comer ran a red light in Ozona and slammed into a pickup truck, killing four people.
This case reaches into West Texas from outside the region, but it lands close to home for anyone who drives the roads between Lubbock and the border. Human smuggling runs like this one cut through small towns and rural highways across this part of the state. The people most at risk are the ones sharing those roads with drivers running from police at triple-digit speeds. A life sentence closes the book on one case, but it does nothing to slow the next chase that starts on some other highway tonight.