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Note: (from an article in the S.A. newpaper 5-31-1953) FLORES AFFRAY KILLS S.A. MAN - A disagreement of years standing wa suddenly climaxed Sunday afternoon with a violent knife-gun affray in the 6700 block of S. Flores St. , which left one man dead and a second man in Baptist Memorial Hospital with critical wounds. Police identified the dead man as John Cox, 55, of Route 7. Police wo ordered the body held at Robert B. Green Hospital autopsy, said the man had been shot between six and eight times. In Baptist Memorial Hospital with stab wounds in the left side and chest and a severely slashed left arm is John Aaron, 32, of 809 East 30th St., Austin. Police Sgt. Jimmie Warrach and Officer Larry Millard, who invetigated, said that Aaron and his wife, and his brother, Albert Aaron, his wife and 3 children, had been to Padre Island on a fishing trip. Shortly before 4 p.m. the group arrived at Tiny's Grill, 6719 S. Flores St., where they stopped for refreshments. The group went inside and John Aaron left the grill to go to an outside restroom. A few minutes later he staggered back to the door of the grill, Albert Aaron told police and shouted, " I've been stabbed." Police said Albert Aaron told them he saw Cox appear in the doorway with an open knife in his hand. Albert shut the door preventing Cox from entering, he told police. He said his brother meantime had run out the rear door of the building and headed for his car which was parked at the side of the building. John Aaron took a .22 caliber rifle from the car, the police report continued, and began firing at Cox who was seperated from him by three automobiles, and who was at the far end of the building. Witnesses said Cox apparently was not hit by this burst of fire, but one shot struck the unoccupied car of Mrs. Verna Wiley, 700 Sommerset Road. The police report said Cox ran around the building and headed toward an open field. A second burst of shots, with witnesses unable to agree upon the number, was then fired toward Cox, some taking effect. He reached a brushy field and disappeared. Police found Cox's body about 150 yards east of the grill. They theorized that Cox had wandered rather blindly around in the brush before he died since his hat was found a considerable distance from his body, and other evidence seemed to indicate that he had stumbled several times. John Aaron told police that the sudden outbrake was a renewal of a quarrel which had occured years before, and which he had thought had been forgotten since he had moved to Austin a number of years ago. One shot from the rifle struck a bedroom of the Harry Disler home at 459 Shrine St., about a half block away from the scene of the shooting. It did not penetrate the wall.
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