UPDATE: A 40-year-old armed man from Fort Bliss who was arrested after gunshots rang out during a large fight in west El Paso has now been released from custody, authorities said Monday. Police said the suspect’s release was ordered by a magistrate who declined to sign an arrest warrant; authorities didn’t elaborate further. The suspect’s
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas voters have some thoughts for lawmakers when it comes to police use of force as the Texas Legislature enters the last month of its regular session, according to a new University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll. Requiring police officers to intervene when another officer is violating the law or department policy in their use
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AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Department of Public Safety issued a statewide Amber Alert on Monday for a 4-year-old boy believed to be in grave or immediate danger. Wyatt Crowley was last seen wearing a Spiderman sweatshirt. The boy is 3 feet tall, weighs 30 pounds and has brown hair and brown eyes, ABC affiliate
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GREEN BAY, Wisconsin — A gunman killed two people at a Wisconsin casino restaurant and seriously wounded a third before he was killed by police late Saturday, in what authorities said appeared to be a targeted attack. Brown County Sheriff’s Lt. Kevin Pawlak said investigators believe the gunman was seeking a specific person he was
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EL PASO, Texas — Social media skateboarding “celebrity” Danny Duncan uploaded a video to YouTube on Friday showing scenes from the Cielo Vista Mall mass shooting false alarm on April 24th that police are investigating to determine if he and his entourage caused the “panic.” Duncan doesn’t apologize for the mayhem and claims the video
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(Editor’s note: A warning that some may find the images in the video player above to be disturbing.) LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — ABC-7 has obtained new video showing the Las Cruces police officer who helped take down a cop killer. Officer Adrian de la Garza used a “pit maneuver” to stop Omar Felix Cueva’s
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LOS ANGELES, California — Los Angeles police have charged five people in connection with the shooting of Lady Gaga’s dog walker and the kidnapping of her beloved French bulldogs, according to police. Three of the five arrested — James Jackson, 18, Jaylin White, 19, and Lafayette Whaley, 27 — were allegedly involved in the robbery and
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UPDATE, April 29: Conditional bond was set at $5,000 Thursday for a Las Cruces man arrested on domestic abuse-related charges after the kids of his alleged victim passed a note to their school bus driver seeking help for their mother. In order to be released, in addition to posting the bail amount, a judge is
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WATAUGA, North Carolina — Five people are dead, including two North Carolina sheriff’s deputies, after a check on a person who did not show up for work ended in gunfire and a 13-hour standoff, authorities said Thursday. Watauga County Sheriff K-9 Deputy Logan Fox died at the scene in the Blue Ridge Mountain town of
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso police bomb squad was called out Wednesday evening to examine a possible explosive device found at a Lower Valley business which was evacuated. Authorities confirmed the discovery was made at Willscot, which is located in the 8700 block of Castner, in an industrial area. Police blocked off Castner
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso man who is charged with murder in the recent death of a one-year-old boy was a friend of the family, according to a relative who spoke with ABC-7 on Tuesday. 24-year-old Marvin Lake was arrested last week and charged with capital murder for allegedly killing Ahren DeHart, who
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EL PASO, Texas — Texas Department of Public Safety special agents arrested ten men in a prostitution sting in the El Paso area last week, officials said Tuesday. The men arrested are all accused of soliciting sex acts from either children or adults, either in-person or online, a DPS statement said. The sting operation was
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EL PASO, Texas — The death of a suspected burglar after El Paso police officers used a stun gun to subdue him is under investigation by state and local authorities, officials said Tuesday. Police said the 40–year-old man, whose name was not released, broke into a closed business in the 3600 block of Buckner Street
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HOUSTON, Texas — An application for a posthumous pardon of George Floyd’s 2004 conviction in Texas was filed Monday on behalf of Floyd and his surviving family, according to a copy of the application obtained by CNN. In the application, Allison Mathis of the Harris County Public Defender’s Office said that even though Floyd worked
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(Editor’s note: In the video player above is NMSP drone footage of the chase and shootout of the drug trafficker who killed an officer. It was obtained by ABC-7 through a public records request. Warning that some may find the video graphic or disturbing.) LORDSBURG, New Mexico — Federal officials arranged with New Mexico State Police to
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UPDATE, April 26: An investigation into last week’s rollover car crash and related assault along I-10 west at the Transmountain exit has led to the uncovering of a human smuggling operation and the arrest of a New Mexico man, El Paso police announced Monday. 24–year old Mark Holguin of Sunland Park was being held in
Continue Reading UPDATE, April 26: El Paso police said Monday a criminal investigation is underway into panic about an “active shooter” over the weekend at the Cielo Vista Mall that was triggered by the appearance of a skateboarder who has gained celebrity notoriety on social media. False word spread through the crowd gathered to see Danny Duncan
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday announced an investigation into the policing practices of the Louisville Police Department. Garland made the announcement at the U.S. Justice Department, and it marks the department’s second ‘pattern or practice’ investigation of a police force in the past five days alone. The Louisville Police Department has faced heavy scrutiny over the
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Police Department is investigating a deadly stabbing in south-central El Paso stemming from an apparent violent family dispute. A man was stabbed to death around 3:30 a.m. Friday in the 300 block of San Marcial Street, police said, and an ABC-7 crew saw a covered body at
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EL PASO, Texas — A Fort Bliss soldier who police said was high on LSD when he attacked his two sons has pleaded guilty to two charges of injuring a child and received an 8-year prison sentence, according to court records reviewed by ABC-7 on Friday. Zakary Frampton, who was 26-years-old at the time, was
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EL PASO, Texas — April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Covid-19 has impacted the way we do everything, and a Borderland shelter that works with sexual assault survivors is no different. “It’s just very difficult right now and all we need to let them know is that we’re here for them,” said Bridgette Vejil, a
Continue Reading DES MOINES, Iowa — An Iowa woman who told police in 2019 that she ran over a girl because she “was a Mexican” has now pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges, according to court records filed this week in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. Nicole Marie Poole Franklin had
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A Las Cruces man was arrested Thursday on multiple felony charges of criminal sexual contact with a 13-year-old girl. Alexander Ray Diaz, 23, was booked into the Dona Ana County Detention Center, where he was being held without bond on the allegations. Investigators wrote in a report that “Diaz started
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SOCORRO, Texas — Police were searching for a gunman who held up a dollar store in Socorro on Friday evening. Authorities said the armed robbery took place about 5:25 p.m. at the Family Dollar store at 100005 Alameda Avenue. Police were called, but the robber fled by the time officers arrived at the store. No
Continue Reading MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday of second-degree and third-degree murder as well as second-degree manslaughter for pinning George Floyd to the pavement with his knee on the Black man’s neck in a case that touched off worldwide protests, violence and a furious reexamination of racism and policing in
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso man has been arrested and charged with capital murder in the killing of an infant, police announced Tuesday. Detectives said 24–year old Marvin Rex Lake was babysitting several young children earlier this month while the children’s mothers were at work. When they returned, investigators said they found one
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — President Joe Biden said Tuesday he is “praying for the right verdict” in the trial of Derek Chauvin, suggesting there was ample evidence to convict the former Minneapolis police officer accused of murdering George Floyd. “It’s overwhelming, in my view,” Biden said in the Oval Office, where he was meeting with Hispanic
Continue Reading MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — The murder case against former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd has gone to the jury. Twelve jurors — six of them white, six Black or multiracial — are beginning deliberations in a city on edge against another round of unrest. During closing arguments Monday, prosecutors contended
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Las Cruces police said Monday they were investigating four separate shootings that happened over the weekend, three of which resulted in people being injured. Those shootings include: About 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the 1000 block of south Almendra Street. Two men were struck by gunfire after an argument between neighbors escalated
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AUSTIN, Texas — Authorities say they arrested a former sheriff’s office detective suspected of killing three people in a shooting in Austin. Stephen Broderick, 41, was arrested just after 7 a.m. CT, according to Manor, Texas, Police Chief Ryan Phipps. “He was walking down the side of 12300 Old Kimbro Road, which is not far
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