EL PASO, Texas– Everyone who lived through the darkest day in El Paso’s history will for ever have a story to tell about August 3rd. It’s likely everyone who witnessed it whether at the scene or at home watching the news will remember where they were when they heard about the tragedy. One man has
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Aug. 3 tragedy took so many things away from Luis Calvillo. He was shot five times. He lost his father, and he lost one of his best friends. But, he didn’t lose soccer. One year later, it’s the beautiful game that’s kept him going. “If a situation happens, whatever
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EL PASO, Texas — Mayor Dee Margo was out of town when the Aug. 3, 2019 tragedy unfolded. He made it a point to get back to El Paso, and has since made it his mission to make sure that tragedy doesn’t define the city. ABC-7 sat down with the mayor to look back on
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EL PASO, Texas — Robert Evans, the Cielo Vista Walmart store manager, was there on Aug. 3 a year ago, and he says he still grapples with what he saw the morning of the shooting. “My main purpose was to get everybody out as quickly and safely as possible,” he recalled.Evans was outside his store
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EL PASO, Texas — Twenty-three people were killed after a 21-year-old from a Dallas suburb drove for up to 11 hours to El Paso armed with an AK-47 rifle he allegedly used in the attack at the Cielo Vista Walmart one year ago on Aug. 3. From the moment of the tragedy to the burial of
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EL PASO, Texas — Monday at 10:39 a.m. there was a moment of silence observed near the ‘Grand Candela’ at Walmart and other locations across the Borderland in remembrance of the victims of the El Paso shooting. You can watch this observance that occurred in the video player above.
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EL PASO, Texas — When Stephanie Melendez, her husband and two young daughters tested positive for the coronavirus, the person she most wanted to call was her father. “I’m married. I have my family. He was still the one I called when I got sick and he’d bring me Gatorade,” said Melendez, 32. “So when
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EL PASO, Texas — An infant boy who survived El Paso’s mass shooting a year ago that left his parents and 21 others dead now likes to thumb through picture books and dance to a Batman jingle with his grandmother, according to an uncle who helps care for the 1-year-old. It will be years before
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EL PASO, Texas — An interfaith community healing service was held at Ascarate Park on Sunday evening to mark one year after the El Paso Walmart massacre. On the eve of the shooting anniversary, Catholic Bishop Mark Seitz and other religious leaders led a solemn and prayerful service of remembrance and healing that took place
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – A man wanted for murder in Virginia was arrested by Border Patrol agents who found him hiding in a restroom on a bus, authorities said Sunday. Agents arrested 20-year-old Salvadorian national Abel Alexander Castro Juarez around 10 p.m. Saturday. Agents working the Interstate 25 checkpoint north of Las Cruces were
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A Las Cruces man is facing charges after authorities say he became combative with police over a fear of snakes and tried to grab an officer’s gun. The Las Cruces Sun-News reports Nathaniel Ryan Ramirez was arrested last weekend following a disturbance at a Las Cruces gas station. According to police,
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The Las Cruces Police Department is getting a new interim police chief. The Las Cruces Sun-News reports Deputy Chief of Administrative Support Services Miguel Dominguez has been named interim chief and will serve until the city permanently fills the position this fall. He replaces outgoing Chief Patrick Gallagher, who announced his
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EL PASO, Texas — As Natalia Miranda lay on the ground, she didn’t know how she got there. Her body was severely swollen and her clothes were torn and dirty. A SUV ran over the 14-year-old a few weeks before Christmas last year. She says she was walking the two blocks between her home in
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz, County Judge Ricardo Samaniego, Mayor Dee Margo and Pastor Michael Grady – a national advocate for racial justice and father of one of the survivors of the Aug. 3 tragedy – spoke about Sunday’s upcoming interfaith community healing service being held at Ascarate Park one year
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EL PASO, Texas — The main goal for doctors and nurses at Del Sol Medical Center in east El Paso has always been to save lives. That was especially true last Aug. 3. Nearly one year after the shooting at the Cielo Vista Walmart, some shared their experiences of that day with ABC-7. Dr. Stephen
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A former Doña Ana County Sheriff’s deputy faces multiple felony charges after officials confirmed Friday that he allegedly kept and hid evidence from nine sex crimes cases that were never prosecuted. Vincent Lopez was arrested Thursday on 18 combined counts of evidence tampering and tampering with public records. He was
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Five years after small explosions outside two churches stirred a scare in Las Cruces the case remains a mystery. The FBI on Friday reminded the public that it is still looking for tips as it more than doubled the reward offered in the case to $50,000. “Investigators have conducted more
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EL PASO, Texas — A 22-year-old man was arrested by sheriff’s deputies Friday, accused of making threats towards an El Paso Walmart worker. Cameron Charles Covington was booked into the downtown jail on $2,500 bond on charges including assault and evading arrest. His arrest Friday at a hotel along Joe Battle Boulevard came after he
Continue Reading A federal appeals court ruled on Friday to vacate the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who along with his brother planted homemade bombs near the finish of the 2013 Boston Marathon, killing three spectators and injuring hundreds. The court also ruled to set aside three of his 30 convictions but said he will remain in
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UPDATE: Police on Friday released a few new details about a Thursday night shooting that critically wounded a man in the 4300 block of Missouri, and they sought the public’s help in the case. Police said the victim was a 27-year-old El Paso man, but they did not release his name. He remained hospitalized Friday
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EL PASO, Texas — They are a humble Hispanic tradition, paper lanterns known as luminarias. Those luminarias also became an iconic symbol after the August 3rd El Paso Walmart mass shooting when memorial organizers lit one luminaria for each of victims who died. Now, one year later, the El Paso Museum of History was displaying
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, D.C. — During a meeting between Vanessa Guillen’s family members and President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday, the president told them that they have his support and that he will personally help with funeral expenses. “If you need help with the funeral financially, I will help,” the president told the family
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso police said Thursday they arrested a knife-wielding man suspected in a pair of convenience store armed robberies. Nicholas Martinez, 47, was taken into custody earlier this week on arrest warrants charging him with two counts of aggravated robbery as well as parole and traffic violations. Martinez remained held in
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A judge on Wednesday dismissed all charges in the case of a former sheriff’s deputy who was charged in the shooting death of a fellow deputy in Las Cruces during what authorities described as an alcohol-fueled dispute. Judge Conrad Perea’s decision to dismiss the case against Tai Chan brings an
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UPDATE: State investigators on Wednesday identified Ray Adrian Lara, 36, of El Paso as the nude man who died after a confrontation with UTEP police in which he was tasered. The Texas Rangers, through a spokesman, indicated the investigation into the circumstances surrounding Lara’s death continued. ORIGINAL REPORT: EL PASO, Texas – A naked man
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Newly obtained police body camera video from earlier this month shows a tense and disturbing scene unfolding at a Las Cruces Walmart. On July 12, an employee of the Walmart on Valley Drive approached a Las Cruces police officer with concerns that a customer refused to wear a mask, according
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – Police used their SWAT team early Tuesday morning to arrest a man suspected of beating up his girlfriend and holding the woman against her will. Carlos Herrera, 36, has been charged with one count of kidnapping and one count of battery against a household member. Officers initially responded to a
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A witness to the deadly shooting at an Austin Black Lives Matter protest said the shooter was not defending against violence — but was initiating it. The driver accused of shooting Garrett Foster “intentionally and aggressively accelerated their vehicle into a crowd of people” before shots rang out, James Sasinowski said. “I want to be
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UPDATE: The Horizon High School teacher, Ricardo Ortiz, who was arrested last week in an FBI sting operation has resigned, according to the Clint Independent School District on Monday. ORIGINAL STORY: CLINT, Texas — A Horizon High School teacher is among ten people who have been arrested in an FBI sting operation involving sex crimes.
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EL PASO, Texas — A man, who has been arrested in connection with several high-profile cases, including animal cruelty, has been arrested again. Jonathan Oneal, age 26, was arrested at a house party early Sunday morning in northeast El Paso, police confirmed Monday. Oneal is accused of punching a person repeatedly and stealing personal property
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