Police say man was killed in ‘exchange of gunfire’ but witness says he didn’t have a gun

On Friday night ABC-7 went to the 2000 block of Pueblo Nuevo in East El Paso on reports of shots fired in a neighborhood near Montwood High School.

A police spokesman confirmed it was a murder investigation, telling us a man was found in the street with multiple gun shot wounds and two people were taken in for questioning.

ABC-7 has since learned those two suspects — as police described them — were questioned and released. On Monday El Paso Police would not say why the suspects were let go. 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!

Police told ABC-7 Monday there was “an exchange of gunfire” at the scene, but the mother of Duffey’s child told ABC-7 she was there and Duffey did not have a gun.

“Although I’m already dead inside and shattered, my life is gone,” said Duffey’s mother, Raquel Murphy through tears, “I wouldn’t want to see anyone go through the pain I’m going through.”

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 to why this happened,” Murphy said, “I want to know. I want to know.”

Police say there was an “exchange of gunfire” leaving Duffey dead with a gunshot would to the chest.

“I thought the worst part was going to be be that they were going to get into a fight,” said Denise Diaz, the mother of Duffey’s son, who told ABC-7 she was on the phone with Duffey and could hear him arguing with her neighbors, so she walked out. “(The neighbor) 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,” Diaz said. “I saw he had the gun, and I’m like, ‘Shedrick just leave!’ 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.”

ABC-7 asked Diaz several times whether Duffey had a gun and she repeatedly said he did not.

“That’s something that gets me,” she said. “There was no reason. He had no reason to shoot him.”

ABC-7 knocked on the neighbor’s door Monday to try and get their side of the story, but no one answered. ABC-7 also tried to speak with several other neighbors about the incident, but no one would speak about it.