LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Officers found a Las Cruces man critically injured with a gunshot wound Sunday evening, according to the police department. After 4 p.m., investigators responded to reports of a shooting on Hickory Drive, south of Avenida de Mesilla, a police spokesman said. First-responders rushed the 35-year-old man to a local hospital,
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AUSTIN, Texas — Three people were pronounced dead from gunshot wounds at the scene of an active shooter incident in Austin on Sunday, according to Austin-Travis County EMS. The shooting appeared to be “a domestic situation that is isolated,” Austin police said. The gunman was still at large, and residents should still shelter in place
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EL PASO, Texas — This week marked the first 100 days of a new district attorney for El Paso. Yvonne Rosales was sworn into office on Jan. 1, 2021. She’s the first woman to hold the position, taking over for longtime district attorney Jaime Esparza, who oversaw the prosecution of thousands of criminals in his
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FORT BLISS, Texas — A private first class already facing a court martial over multiple accusations of the sexual assault of women, one of those involving a fellow soldier who was found dead on New Year’s Eve, now faces even more charges of sexual assault and abusive sexual conduct, officials at Fort Bliss disclosed Friday
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HOUSTON, Texas — A court in Texas has thrown out the death sentence of convicted killer Raymond Riles, who has spent more than 40 years on the state’s death row. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled this week that Riles’ death sentence “can no longer stand” because the jury that sentenced him was not
Continue Reading INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana — Police in Indianapolis on Friday identified the gunman who stormed a FedEx facility near the Indianapolis airport, killing 8 people and wounding several others, but investigators could not yet say why he opened fire with a rifle overnight before taking his own life. The shooter was named by law enforcement officials as
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UPDATE, April 16: Las Cruces Crime Stoppers on Friday announced it is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information that helps police identify a bloody attacker from Wednesday’s shooting that injured a 26-year-old man. While authorities didn’t release the shooting victim’s identity, they did release surveillance images of a suspect from a neighbor’s doorbell
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — A heavy metal guitarist with ties to the Oath Keepers on Friday became the first defendant to plead guilty to federal charges in the U.S. Capitol riot and will cooperate with federal authorities. Jon Ryan Schaffer, the frontman of the band Iced Earth, agreed to cooperate with investigators in hopes of getting a
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas — An attempted mass shooting outside the San Antonio International Airport on Thursday was prevented by a parks officer working overtime, police said. The shooter was driving in the wrong direction on an airport roadway when the officer — who is not being named — stopped him outside Terminal B, police said.
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UPDATE, April 15: El Paso police said a woman blamed for causing a deadly traffic crash on U.S. 54 earlier this month, as a result of drunk driving and speeding, has now been released from the hospital and booked into jail. Erika Monique Debruhl, 35, was arrested on a charge of intoxication manslaughter and is
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — Derek Chauvin invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to testify on Thursday and the defense rested its case as the trial of George Floyd’s death neared its final stages. Closing arguments are set for Monday, after which the jury will be sequestered during deliberations. Chauvin, speaking into a microphone before the jury entered
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EL PASO, Texas — A man was shot and seriously wounded Wednesday afternoon in El Paso’s Sunset Heights neighborhood. It happened around 3:30 p.m. in the area of Yandell Drive and Hawthorne Street. Authorities said the victim was taken to University Medical Center with serious injuries. No further details were immediately available.
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WASHINGTON, DC — Federal prosecutors won’t charge a police officer who shot and killed a woman as she climbed through the broken part of a door during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Authorities had considered for months whether criminal charges were appropriate for the Capitol Police officer who fatally shot Ashli
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota – The judge in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial has denied a defense motion to acquit the former police officer in George Floyd’s death. Chauvin attorney Eric Nelson argued Wednesday that prosecutors did not prove that Chauvin’s actions killed Floyd. The request came a day after a use-of-force expert said Chauvin was justified in
Continue Reading BROOKLYN CENTER, Minnesota — A police officer who authorities say shot and killed a Black man in a Minneapolis suburb after a traffic stop has been charged with second-degree manslaughter, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Brooklyn Center police Officer Kim Potter is charged in Sunday’s shooting death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, Washington County Attorney Pete Orput
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LORDSBURG, New Mexico — The family of a New Mexico State Police officer fatally shot in the line of duty in February has filed a tort claim notice with the state seeking damages, one of the first steps in filing a wrongful death lawsuit. The attorney for Darian Jarrott’s widow and family contends the officer was told
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EL PASO, Texas — An Army National Guard soldier who works as a jail guard in New York City was arrested in El Paso on charges that he lied about his military service to get extra government benefits, authorities announced Tuesday. Shawn Pierre Hobbs, 34, was arrested Monday on wire fraud and aggravated identity theft charges lodged in federal
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — An Alamogordo man serving life in prison for murder and other crimes has lost an appeal. The New Mexico Supreme Court upheld the convictions Monday of Robert “Bob” Chavez in the 2011 killing of a man whose body was later burned. Chavez’s attorneys had argued he should not have been tried in
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — Prosecutors rested their case Tuesday at the murder trial of former Officer Derek Chauvin after 11 days of testimony and a mountain of video depicting George Floyd’s final moments, opening the way for the defense to present its side. Chauvin’s lawyer has argued that the now-fired white officer did what he was trained
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UPDATE, April 13: Detectives said Tuesday that they now believe a man found shot at a hotel near the El Paso airport a day prior was the victim of an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound. 29–year-old Edgar Gurrolla Reyes, a Mexican citizen, remained hospitalized at UMC on Tuesday. Police indicated that two other people who were
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KNOXVILLE, Tennessee — Authorities say a student at a Tennessee high school fired at officers and was killed by police. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Director David B. Rausch said at a news conference Monday evening that police responded to a report of a possible gunman at Austin-East Magnet High School in Knoxville. He says the
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EL PASO, Texas — A Fort Bliss soldier armed with a shotgun and threatening suicide barricaded himself in a car with an infant Monday afternoon, triggering a standoff with the El Paso police SWAT team. The incident occurred in the 600 block of Hempstead in west El Paso. Police blocked off the surrounding area as
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UPDATE, April 12: A 16-year-old northeast El Paso girl remained hospitalized Tuesday with life-threatening injuries after being shot over the weekend by a 20-year-old man she was dating, police said. Officers indicated the shooting was initially reported by the girl’s mother as a suicide, but investigators discovered the man “was handling a handgun when the
Continue Reading [Breaking news update at 1:16 p.m. ET] A 20-year-old man was fatally shot during a traffic stop after a Minnesota police officer shouted “Taser!” but fired a handgun instead of the non-lethal stun gun, Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon said. [Previous story, published at 1:09 p.m. ET] Hundreds of people protested Sunday night after
Continue Reading MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — The judge in the George Floyd murder case refused a defense request to immediately sequester the jury Monday, the morning after the killing of a Black man during a traffic stop triggered unrest in a suburb just outside Minneapolis. The request came from the attorney for former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin. Defense attorney
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso police said two people were wounded, one with serious injuries, in an early Monday morning shooting in northeast El Paso. The shooting was reported shortly after 1:30 a.m. outside a 7-Eleven convenience store at Fairbanks Drive and Rushing Road. Police said one person was taken into custody. ABC-7 news
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EL PASO, Texas — The family of a 62-year-old woman who was struck with her own vehicle in New Mexico after a man she offered to help stole her car said she is recovering in an El Paso hospital. Alyson Lyons is receiving treatment for severe road rash, gashes to her head, a fractured wrist and her legs,
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FABENS, Texas – El Paso County Sheriff’s deputies have arrested a Fabens man this weekend on animal cruelty charges after the violent death of a cat. Jesus Jose Vega, 42, was being held in the El Paso County Detention Facility on $10,000 bond. Deputies said they took Vega into custody on Saturday in the 100
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EL PASO, Texas — A 21-year-old woman has been arrested and charged for stabbing a man in whose home she was staying. It happened earlier this week at a home in the 2000 block of Tim Foster, which is off Montwood Boulevard on El Paso’s far east side. Police say Lizeth Corona and the home’s
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso man is in jail, accused of stealing $800,000 and buying five new cars for his family members. Police say 32-year-old Roberto Ramon Tejada was caught after Miracle Delivery Services reported that one of their armored transport drivers had stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars from several financial institutions.
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