EL PASO, Texas — El Paso firefighters were called out on a mountain rescue Saturday afternoon after a man suffered an apparent medical emergency and collapsed. The hiker was found dead by rescue crews on the Lazy Cow Mountain Trail in northeast El Paso during the noon hour; no identifying information about the victim was
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UPDATE: A 37-year-old man remain hospitalized Saturday afternoon in critical but stable condition after being stabbed multiple times in a far east El Paso shopping center parking lot overnight, authorities said. The victim’s name was not released and investigators put out a public call for help in finding the victim’s attacker. El Paso police asked
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Covid-19 has been the leading cause of death for US police officers in the last two years, according to Officer Down Memorial Page. CNN’s Ryan Young speaks to two widows who lost their husbands to the virus.
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SOCORRO, Texas — A Socorro fugitive wanted on numerous violent felony arrest warrants was found hiding under a pile of clothes in a home after police went looking for him, authorities announced Saturday. 49-year-old Benjamin Trevino was jailed on over $260,000 bond following his arrest on Friday. It came after police spotted Trevino in the
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By Jason Hanna and Alta Spells, CNN A gunman “came out of nowhere” and fired on constable’s deputies who were trying to detain someone else outside a Houston bar early Saturday, ultimately killing one deputy and injuring two others, a constable said. Deputy Kareem Atkins, 30, died from his gun shot injuries, according to a
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By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The lawyers for accused Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz say he plans to plead guilty to the 2018 massacre at a Parkland high school. The guilty plea would set up a penalty phase where the 23-year-old Cruz would be fighting against the death penalty and
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UPDATE, Oct. 13: Las Cruces police on Wednesday identified a violent California fugitive as the man killed in a shootout with officers during a traffic stop Saturday night. Authorities said 35-year-old Gustavo Esparza of Los Angeles, who was wanted on a federal warrant for violating his probation for weapons possession, opened fire on Las Cruces
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AUSTIN, Texas — The scandal-plagued Texas Juvenile Justice Department is the target of a new federal civil rights investigation, the four U.S. Attorneys for the state announced at a news conference on Wednesday. The probe will examine whether children in Texas’ five state youth lockups are suffering from widespread sexual assault and other constitutional violations
Continue Reading UPDATE: Gabby Petito’s cause of death was ruled to be strangulation and the manner of death was homicide, Teton County Coroner Dr. Brent Blue said on Tuesday. Blue announced the findings at a press conference about a month after Petito, 22, was reported missing in the wake of a road trip with her 23-year-old fiancé
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By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say two Postal Service workers have been fatally shot at a postal facility in Memphis, the third high-profile shooting in west Tennessee in recent weeks. A third postal employee was identified as the shooter Tuesday, and officials say that person died from a self-inflicted gunshot.
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HORIZON CITY, Texas — A man is behind bars after allegedly wielding an ax at an El Paso County Sheriff’s deputy. It happened last Friday when deputies responded to a domestic disturbance in the 100 block of Ascension near Horizon City.The Sheriff’s Office said 34-year-old Gabriel Gutierrez pulled an ax out of the back of
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — The Chihuahua State Attorney General’s Office has charged three teenage boys in the rape and killing of a 13-year-old Juárez girl late last month, according to ABC-7’s news partners at Canal 44. The boys, ages 15, 16 and 17, are facing charges of rape and femicide in the Sept. 30 death
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Classes have resumed at a Texas high school for the first time since a classroom shooting that wounded a teacher and student. The shooting happened Oct. 6 at Timberview High School in Arlington. Police say 18-year-old Timothy George Simpkins opened fire in a classroom after a fight with another student. Simpkins
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UPDATE: ANTHONY, New Mexico — Anthony police on Sunday identified both Saturday’s deadly stabbing victim and the man being sought for his murder; they asked for the public’s help in locating the suspect who is “armed and should be considered dangerous.” Police said 34-year-old Gumaro Enrique Vega was wanted in the killing of his uncle,
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By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Executions in the nation’s busiest capital punishment state face delays amid legal questions over Texas’ refusal to allow spiritual advisers to touch people as they are being put to death. It’s unclear when Texas may carry out another execution after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to
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RIO GRANDE VALLEY, Texas — A suspected human smuggler lead Texas Department of Public Safety troopers on a high-speed car chase in the Rio Grande Valley that was caught on helicopter video. On the video, you can see the driver goes down an access road with the car weaving left and right. The driver then loses
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Police Department is looking to ask City Council to raise its budget by $72,000 next year to allow the department to test marijuana cases at a lab. “Marijuana and hemp are very much so identical one of the only characteristics that differs hemp from marijuana is the amount
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A standoff at a Las Cruces motel Thursday afternoon ended in the capture of a wanted fugitive. A police SWAT team surrounded the Kilby Motel in the 1000 block of South Main Street as officers sought to serve a warrant. People in area were either evacuated or advised to shelter-in-place
Continue Reading ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — An 18-year-old student accused in a shooting at a Texas high school has been released from jail after posting bond. Timothy George Simpkins was released from the Tarrant County jail at midday Thursday after he was jailed a day earlier on three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Police
Continue Reading UPDATE: ARLINGTON, Texas — Police in Texas have arrested a student suspected of opening fire during a fight at his Dallas-area high school, leaving four people injured. Police said 18-year-old Timothy George Simpkins fled from Timberview High School in Arlington and drove away in a 2018 silver Dodge Charger after the Wednesday morning shooting. He was
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SILVER CITY, New Mexico — A southern New Mexico man on probation who had to wear an ankle bracelet to monitor his movements has been arrested in the fatal beating of his wife with an ax after authorities used data from the bracelet to find her body in a national forest where the couple went to cut
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UPDATE, Oct. 5: Silenced with duct tape, choked and punched – those are some of the new details ABC-7 has learned from El Paso police about an attack inside a Lower Valley apartment. The details come from what two women told detectives happened when an off-duty apartment complex maintenance worker is alleged to have violently
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HOUSTON, Texas — The FBI is asking for help in finding a missing 13-year-old Texas girl who was last seen two weeks ago and is believed to be in grave danger, ABC affiliate KTRK reported Tuesday evening. The FBI in Houston said it was searching for Leilana Graham, who was last seen on Sept. 20
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HORIZON CITY, Texas — A Horizon City man was arrested during a raid by federal agents on accusations of operating a “dangerous” human smuggling network, authorities said Tuesday. Homeland Security officials said 47-year-old Roberto Benavidez was the target of a year-long investigation by federal authorities. During that time, Benavidez allegedly harbored and transported more than
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BONNE TERRE, Missouri — A Missouri man has been put to death for killing three workers while robbing a convenience store nearly three decades ago. The execution was carried out over objections from racial justice activists, lawmakers and even Pope Francis. Ernest Johnson died from an injection of pentobarbital at the state prison in Bonne
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LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — The Las Cruces Police Department has settled a lawsuit by a man who claimed he was seriously injured during an arrest by a former officer. The Las Cruces Sun-News reported Monday that records show the City of Las Cruces quietly settled with Warren McCowan for $180,000 in March but admitted
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UPDATE, Aug. 4: Las Cruces police said a man shot in the upper leg and hip area over the weekend remained hospitalized Monday with non-life threatening injuries and the shooter was still outstanding. Meantime, employees of a downtown Las Cruces business said they feel like they literally dodged a bullet after Saturday’s late night gunfire; witnesses
Continue Reading TUCSON, Arizona — A DEA agent was killed and another agent along with a Tucson police officer were seriously injured after someone opened fire Monday aboard an Amtrak train in Tucson, ABC affiliate KGUN reported. The shooting happened Monday just after 8 a.m. on a train parked at the downtown station. Authorities told KGUN that
Continue Reading By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas agency has approved a request that George Floyd be granted a posthumous pardon for a 2004 drug arrest made by a now-indicted ex-Houston police officer whose case history is under scrutiny following a deadly drug raid. Monday’s unanimous recommendation by the seven member Texas
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EL PASO, Texas — An east El Paso man was charged with drunk driving Sunday after his pickup truck struck and injured a pedestrian crossing the street in the Cincinnati entertainment district at bar closing time, police said. It happened just after 2 a.m. at the intersection of Cincinnati and Mesa streets on the city’s
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