UPDATE: Police provided an update Saturday night on a violent family disturbance that happened earlier in the day, noting that they initially thought there were two stabbing victims, however only one of the three injured people had been stabbed. Investigators said an argument between a couple and other relatives escalated into a physical fight that
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SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico — A Sunland Park resident was hospitalized Saturday with multiple gunshot wounds following an early morning drive-by shooting that targeted the victim’s home. Sunland Park Police Chief Javier Guerra told ABC-7 that more than 20 shots were fired from a high-powered rifle into the house located at the corner of First
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EL PASO, Texas — Back-to-back seizures of the dangerous synthetic drug fentanyl happened at two El Paso ports of entry this week. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, in both instances, agents were tipped off to wrongdoing by nervous behavior at inspection points. A 30-year-old man was arrested after attempting to cross the Ysleta
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HOUSTON, Texas — Authorities say a former student of a Houston charter school shot and wounded a school principal on campus before quickly surrendering to police. The shooting happened at about 11:45 a.m. Friday at YES Prep Southwest Secondary, a charter school that serves students in sixth through 12th grades. Houston Police Chief Troy Finner
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EL PASO, Texas — A fugitive dubbed the ‘Sweet Tooth’ bandit by El Paso police has been captured, authorities announced Thursday afternoon. The arrest of 38-year-old Gerardo Olivares of El Paso comes after a tip was given to Crime Stoppers. Olivares was wanted by authorities for the armed hold-up of a convenience store earlier this
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UPDATE, Sept. 29: Questions arose at this week’s El Paso City Council meeting about an interaction between police and a homeless man that went viral more than a week ago. Manuel “Shorty” Luna says he suffered a seizure while being arrested by police in downtown El Paso. Several city council members questioned why an official
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Independent School District has promoted its first female police sergeant for the district’s police department. Sgt. Denby “Donica” Pedregon is a U.S. Army combat veteran with 14 years of experience in law enforcement, including seven as an officer in EPISD. She is one of five female officers on
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EL PASO, Texas — A father outraged after learning his six-year-old son was left alone at a park by a school bus driver is threatening to sue the Socorro Independent School District. You may recognize the father’s name, Daniel Villegas, who in 2018 was freed from jail after being found not guilty of killing two
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas inmate has been executed for fatally stabbing two Houston-area brothers during a robbery in their home more than 30 years ago. Rick Rhoades was executed by lethal injection Tuesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He was condemned for the September 1991 killings of 31-year-old Charles Allen and 33-year-old
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso police said Tuesday they were investigating the case of an abandoned dog that was tied to the back of an eastside business. The incident happened Monday during the early morning hours at 1757 George Dieter Drive, which is a shopping complex. Detectives said employees from a business located in
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EL PASO, Texas — The number of serious crimes reported to El Paso police in 2020 declined by 18% compared to the previous year, continuing a remarkable trend, the FBI reported this week.Violent crime reported to police — murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault — fell by 12% last year. Reported property crimes — burglary,
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By Kiely Westhoff and Jason Hanna, CNN A man who killed five employees of Maryland’s Capital Gazette newspaper in 2018 was sentenced Tuesday to spend the rest of his life in jail, prosecutors say. Jarrod Ramos was sentenced to five life sentences without parole, plus one life sentence, plus 345 years, according to Anne Arundel
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso police arrested a 34-year-old California woman Monday on charges she stabbed and wounded a 13-year-old child multiple times with a knife. Authorities said the attack happened about 2 a.m. in the 8500 block of Alameda in the Lower Valley. A police indecent report said the woman “became upset after
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UPDATE, Sept. 27: A man seriously wounded in northeast El Paso over the weekend was accidentally shot by a friend, police said Monday. Investigators said a 55-year-old man shot his 52-year-old friend in the chest while handling a weapon that he apparently didn’t know was loaded. The victim remained hospitalized Monday and was listed in
Continue Reading By Priya Krishnakumar, CNN The FBI released its annual Uniform Crime Report for 2020 on Monday, showing that the number of homicides increased nearly 30% from 2019, the largest single-year increase the agency has recorded since it began tracking these crimes in the 1960s. The report, which is on par with preliminary numbers that were
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso police said one person was hospitalized after being stabbed in the northeast early Monday morning. Police were called out to the 5200 block of Danny Drive just after 2:30 a.m. Police have not said whether the victim is a man or a woman, and they also did not
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — A group of armed men shot and killed seven people at a party and then burned the house down in Juarez early Sunday morning, ABC-7’s news partners at Canal 44 reported. The deadly attack unfolded around dawn at the intersection of Privada Francisco I. Madero and Rodolfo Fierro streets, in the
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WALNUT SPRINGS, Texas — Authorities issued a statewide Amber Alert on Saturday morning to find a missing 7-year-old girl from central Texas. Jessie Marie Lowrey was last seen Friday evening in Walnut Springs wearing a blue T-shirt with stars and black pants with stars. She was also wearing a blue hair bow, according to ABC
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BAY CITY, Texas — The Texas Department of Public Safety late Friday issued a statewide Amber Alert for Alicity Erevia, 17, reported missing and believed to be with an older man. Erevia was last seen at Bay City High School about 2 p.m. Friday. She is described as Hispanic, with brown hair and brown eyes,
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UPDATE: COLLIERVILLE, Tennessee — The gunman in Thursday’s deadly shooting at a western Tennessee grocery store was a third-party vendor for Kroger, Collierville Police Chief Dale Lane said during a news conference Friday morning. Lane declined to provide the gunman’s name during the gunman’s name during the news conference, saying, “I’m not giving him notoriety
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — One week after vandals struck Las Cruces High School, police asked for help finding those responsible and offered a $1,000 reward to identify them. Las Cruces/Dona Ana County Crime Stoppers released surveillance video showing as many as ten people believed to be teenagers or young adults who can be seen
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UPDATE, Sept. 23: LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Police have now arrested the second suspect wanted in a fatal drive-by shooting last month in Las Cruces. Las Cruces police said Thursday that Jimmy Levi Rogers, 29, was located and arrested in California by federal marshals. He had been the subject of a manhunt in recent weeks,
Continue Reading By MATTHEW BROWN and CURT ANDERSON Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Federal officials say the boyfriend of Gabby Petito, whose body was found at a national park in Wyoming after a cross-country trip with him, has been indicted for unauthorized use of a debit card. Thursday’s announcement of an arrest warrant for Brian Laundrie
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation says it has seen a disturbing trend of online threats against public places, including schools, after two El Paso area high schools were recently on high alert from a hoax threat. FBI Special Agent Jeanette Harper says online threats against schools
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A woman was arrested Wednesday after leading police on a car chase from El Paso County up toward Las Cruces, authorities said. The pursuit started around 4 p.m. after Texas state troopers attempted to make what was described as a “high-risk felony traffic stop.” The chase finally ended over a
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UPDATE #2: Las Cruces police announced the arrest of a Roswell man Wednesday who is accused in Tuesday afternoon’s shooting that wounded a 32-year-old Las Cruces man who was a passenger in a car. Raul Angel Castillo-Hernandez, 24, is charged with felony counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Continue Reading By Madeline Holcombe, Eric Levenson, Amanda Watts, Randi Kaye and Kari Pricher, CNN A couple from Louisiana who were vacationing in Jackson, Wyoming, last month said Wednesday they saw an incident involving Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie in a restaurant in one of the last sightings of Petito before her death. Nina Angelo told CNN
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WASHINGTON, DC — After months of negotiations, bipartisan police reform talks are officially over without a deal, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News. Sources told ABC News that Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., called Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., Wednesday morning to tell him that negotiations would be ending after Scott didn’t accept the final offer Democrats had
Continue Reading DENVER, Colorado — Autopsy results have confirmed that the remains found over the weekend near Grand Teton National Park are those of Gabby Petito, a 22-year-old woman who disappeared while on a cross-country road trip exploring national parks with her fiancé, according to the FBI in Denver. The manner of her death is homicide, the
Continue Reading HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities say a Houston police officer was killed and another was wounded during a shooting that also killed a 31-year-old man who the officers were attempting to arrest. Mayor Sylvester Turner says both officers were shot multiple times while attempting to serve an arrest warrant at a home in an apartment complex
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