DEMING, New Mexico — State public safety officials released disturbing patrol car dashcam video Friday evening showing a violent February encounter during a traffic stop that claimed the life of a New Mexico State Police officer. The tragic incident was part of a multi-agency anti-narcotics operation. The video shows how the traffic stop was conducted
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COLUMBUS, New Mexico — A man was shot multiple times and seriously wounded Friday afternoon at or near the U.S. Post Office for the Luna County village of Columbus. Mayor Esequiel Salas told ABC-7 that the gunfire occurred shortly before 2:30 p.m. in the 200 block of Main Street. The injured man, said to be
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BRYAN, Texas — A gunman killed one person and wounded at least five others — four of them critically — at a cabinet manufacturer in Bryan, Texas, police said. The gunman, who is believed to be an employee of the company, Kent Moore Cabinets, fled before police arrived but was later taken into custody, Bryan
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — George Floyd died of a lack of oxygen from the way he was held down by police, a retired forensic pathologist testified Friday at former Officer Derek Chauvin’s murder trial. The testimony of Lindsey Thomas, who retired in 2017 from the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s office in Minneapolis, bolstered the findings of other experts
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UPDATE, April 9: El Paso police investigators on Friday revealed the identity of a woman who they say was murdered in a vacant building in the Lower Valley. Detectives indicated 44 –year-old Adriana Hydee Perez died from multiple gunshot wounds. Perez had apparently been living in the dilapidated building at 123 Malaga Place where she
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GONZALES, Texas — A statewide Amber Alert has been issued for a 12-year-old boy out of Gonzales who is believed to have been abducted. ABC affiliate KXXV reports Aaron McBeth was last seen around 5 a.m. Friday, wearing a gray Iron Man shirt, blue jeans, black shoes with a stripe on the side and a
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BRYAN, Texas — There were six people shot and one killed Thursday afternoon at a cabinet making business in Bryan, just outside of College Station, officials said. A Texas Department of Public Safety officer was also shot while apprehending the suspect. Four people were critically injured in the shooting at Kent Moore Cabinets and taken
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EL PASO, Texas — The mother of a slain 5-month-old El Paso child pleaded guilty Thursday in a deal with prosecutors that will make her eligible for parole. Michelle Gutierrez, the mother of America Salgado, pleaded guilty to a charge of omission and failure to act in her daughter’s death at the hands of her
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WASHINGTON, DC — In President Joe Biden’s first notable gun control measures, he announced executive actions on Thursday aimed at addressing what the White House calls a “gun violence public health epidemic.” Biden’s limited steps come three weeks after three mass shootings and with his administration under pressure to act. In his actions, Biden is
Continue Reading MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — George Floyd died from a lack of oxygen, which damaged his brain and caused his heart to stop, a medical expert testified Thursday at former Officer Derek Chauvin’s murder trial. Floyd’s breathing was too shallow to take in enough oxygen while he was pinned facedown with his hands cuffed behind his back for 9
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UPDATE: Fort Bliss officials told ABC-7 that soldier Oranda Herminette Perez Moctezuma, who prompted a search effort after she went missing under “suspicious circumstances,” was found “in good health” late Wednesday afternoon. In a later statement, El Paso police said Moctezuma was located when she returned to her home around 3 p.m. “She had no
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WASHINGTON, DC — The Biden administration is expected to nominate David Chipman, a former federal agent and adviser at the gun control group Giffords, to be director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. If confirmed, Chipman would be the agency’s first permanent director since 2015. Two people familiar with the matter told
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — Officer Derek Chauvin had his knee on George Floyd’s neck — and was bearing down with most of his weight — the entire time the Black man lay facedown with his hands cuffed behind his back, a use-of-force expert testified Wednesday at Chauvin’s murder trial. Jody Stiger, a Los Angeles Police Department sergeant serving
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office is allowing in-person inmate visits to resume this weekend at the downtown jail and jail annex. Safety precautions and capacity limits will be in place. As operations shift closer to normal inside these facilities, and now that all adults in Texas are eligible for
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office says it will resume allowing in-person inmate visitation at the downtown jail and the jail annex starting April 10. In an effort to protect staff, inmates and visitors from potential exposure to the coronavirus, sheriff’s officials indicated the following safety measures will be in effect:
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — Four years before George Floyd’s death, Officer Derek Chauvin took a 40-hour course on crisis intervention that included training on how to recognize people in crisis and how to use de-escalation techniques to calm them down, the jury at Chauvin’s murder trial was told Tuesday. Sgt. Ker Yang, the Minneapolis police official
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso police SWAT was called out Monday evening to a home in the 3400 block of East Glen for a barricaded man with a weapon, who would later surrender to authorities after an almost three-hour standoff. The east El Paso ordeal stemmed from what police said was an aggravated assault
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DALLAS, Texas — The driver of a stolen ambulance was taken into custody on Monday afternoon after a two-hour police chase that stretched along highways and city streets across the greater Dallas area, according to ABC affiliate WFAA. The ambulance was stolen from a Dallas fire station earlier in the day, officials said. The ambulance
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — The Minneapolis police chief testified Monday that now-fired Officer Derek Chauvin violated departmental policy in pinning his knee on George Floyd’s neck and keeping him down after Floyd had stopped resisting and was in distress. Continuing to kneel on Floyd’s neck once he was handcuffed behind his back and lying on his
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DEMING, New Mexico — Authorities say two young sisters in Deming who were the subject of an Amber Alert have been found safe. Deming police said Sunday that 3-year-old Abri Lujan and 4-year-old Adelina Lujan were found unharmed hours after going missing. Their father, Jose Luis Lujan, is accused of abducting them and threatening to injure
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — The man who rammed a car into two officers at a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol, killing one of them before he was shot to death by police, had been suffering from delusions, paranoia and suicidal thoughts, a U.S. official told The Associated Press on Saturday. Investigators believe it was an isolated
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — Kneeling on George Floyd ’s neck while he was handcuffed and in the prone position was “top-tier, deadly force” and “totally unnecessary,” the head of the Minneapolis Police Department’s homicide division testified Friday. “If your knee is on a person’s neck, that can kill him,” said Lt. Richard Zimmerman, adding that when a person
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Police Department held the first in a series of town hall meetings with the various command posts across the city. Thursday evening’s meeting focused on EPPD’s Westside Regional Command Center and triggered a lengthy discussion over recent troubles in the Cincinnati Entertainment District, a portion of which you can
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EL PASO, Texas — An increase in travel is leading to an increase in contraband at the El Paso International Airport. In the time frame from Feb. 19 to March 26, federal Transportation Security Agency officers said they seized six handguns, five of which were loaded. “The month of March was actually the busiest month
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UPDATE, April 1: The estranged wife of northeast El Paso shooting victim Laithe Marra has been arrested and charged with his February murder, authorities announced Thursday. The U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force arrested 57–year-old Leanne Mandeville at her home on Wednesday, El Paso police said. She was booked into the El Paso County Detention Facility
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EL PASO, Texas — Texas Department of Public Safety special agents arrested five men stemming from an online child sex sting operation in the El Paso area earlier this week, officials said Thursday. The operation resulted in felony charges being filed against the five suspects who allegedly solicited sex acts from children, a DPS statement said.
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — George Floyd’s girlfriend cried on the witness stand Thursday as she told the story of how they first met in 2017 at a Salvation Army shelter where Floyd was a security guard with “this great Southern voice, raspy.” She also recounted how they both struggled with opioid addiction. “Both Floyd and I,
Continue Reading ANTHONY, Texas — It may be April Fools Day, but legalizing marijuana in the neighboring state of New Mexico is no joke. In a special session on Wednesday night, legislators approved a bill to legalize recreational marijuana in New Mexico for those aged 21 and older. The bill still has to be signed by the
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WACO, Texas — After being shot in the line of duty last week, a Texas state trooper has now died, according to a statement from the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) late Wednesday night. Trooper Chad Walker, 38, stopped to assist a driver alongside a highway near Mexia, Texas last week when the driver
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ORANGE, California — A shooting at a Southern California office building on Wednesday evening killed four people, including a child, and injured a fifth person before police shot and wounded the gunman, authorities said. The violence in the city of Orange, located southeast of Los Angeles, was the nation’s third mass shooting in just over
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