ABC-7 speaks to family of homicide victim
her son shot dead. all i know is some angry neighbor is upset because of the streets … streets that are parking for the public …” the mother of a young man shot and killed in east el paso sharing her frustration with abc-seven. witnesses and police say it all began with a fight over where the victim parked his car.. this is a story abc- seven brought you as breaking news over the weekend. we went to the 2- thousand block of pueblo nuevo… … friday night on reports of shots fired in a neighborhood near montwood high school. while there, a police spokesman confirmed it was a murder investigation. a police spokesman said a man was found in the street with multiple gun shot wounds. … and two people were taken in for questioning. we’ve since learned those two suspects –as police described them– were questioned and released. tonight, el paso police are not saying why the suspects were let go. … and the family of 22-year-old shedrick duffey wants to know why… because a witness says the shooter’s claim of self-defense is a lie! reporter darren hunt has the new information… ashlie/bob, police told us today there was, quote, “an exchange of gunfire” at the scene … but the mother of duffey’s child told me she was there and duffey did not have a gun. pkg “although i’m already dea inside and shattered, my life is gone, i wouldn’t want to see anyone go through the pain i’m going through … .” raquel murphy wants to kno what happened to her son, shedrick duffey. according to police, duffey got into an argument with neighbors over where he parked his car while visiting his two-year-old son deondre and the boy’s mother. “if there is an explanation t why this happened, i want to know, i want to know.” police say there was an “exchange of gunfire” leavin duffey dead with a gunshot would to the chest. “i thought the worst part was gonna be that they were gonna get into a fight.” denise diaz is the mother of duffey’s son. she said she was on the phone with duffey and could hear him arguing with her neighbors, so she walked out. “he just comes and starts hitting shedrick’s car, hitting the window he starts kicking the tail light, i’m like what’s wrong with you, stop!” diaz said that’s when the father of the man who was kicking duffey’s car approached the vehicle. “he was right next to me, i saw he had the gun, and i’m like shedrick just leave and he comes like, he was right next to me … i was telling shedrick to leave … and this man he didn’t care, he didn’t shoot him out of being scared, everything he said about it being self defense that’s bull they were the ones attacking him.” “did shedrick have a gun? “no.” “he didnt have a gun in the car … he never showed a gun?” “nothing, it was just like, that’s something that gets me there was no reason … he had no reason to shoot him.” we knocked on the neighbor’s door today to try and get their side of the story, but no one answered. we also tried to speak with several neighbors about the incident, but no one would speak to us. bob? new tonight an emotional day in a