El Paso Constable Robert White remembered
An El Paso constable is being remembered for his service to the community. El Paso County Sheriff’s Office says Constable Robert White was killed after getting in a fight with 19-year-old active duty Fort Bliss soldier Devon Huerta-Person.
The fight happened at a haunted house Halloween night. Huerta-Person has been charged with capital murder.
ABC-7 was told by friends and colleagues that White was 45 years old, served the community for 17 years as a constable and left behind four kids.
“He had so many talents and so many avenues and so many things he could’ve done and places he could go,” Precinct 7 Constable Angie Sommers said of White.
Terror Trail haunted house on the 400 block of Anthony Avenue closed early this year. Sommers said constable white was attacked around 12:30 a.m. Nov. 1 while escorting Huerta-Person out of the haunted house.
El Paso County Judge Veronica Escobar believes Huerta-Person was inebriated.
“We really, as a community, need to have a conversation about how to prevent tragedies like this. This was so needless, so senseless,” Escobar said.
Several bouquets of flowers stood as a memorial for White on Sunday and people stopped by to pay their respects.
“I feel bad for him and the Fort Bliss soldier because you know how they kill people and everything? I think that got in his head,” one teenage boy who lives across the street said. He spoke with White just hours before he died.
ABC-7 spoke with the second in line for White, Deputy Constable Francisco Almada. Almada said he’ll be releasing the funeral arrangements for White soon.
