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What Happened at North County Road 1140 and Highway 80 — and What It Means for Your Family You are reading this because someone you love went to work in Midland and did not come home. The headline says several people are dead after a shooting at or near the intersection of North County Road 1140 and Highway 80, and the reporting indicates that employees were among those killed. You may be standing in a hospital hallway, sitting at a kitchen table at 3 a.m., or staring at a phone that keeps ringing with people who say they are sorry. We are sorry too. And we are going to tell you the truth about what comes next — not to sell you anything, but because the decisions made in the first weeks after a workplace death are the decisions that determine whether a family gets answers or gets silence. Here is the first thing you need to hear: a criminal prosecution — if one happens — is not your case. The district attorney’s office prosecutes the shooter. That case is about punishment under the criminal law. It does not pay your family’s bills. It does not replace the income your…