HOLLYWOOD, California — An El Paso man has been arrested in connection with a shooting that killed a 17-year-old girl watching a street race in Hollywood early Sunday morning, authorities said. Ramon Roque Monreal, 33, of El Paso, was arrested and booked for murder, with his bail set at $3 million, ABC affiliate KABC reported.
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AUSTIN, Texas — A man was fatally shot at a protest in Texas when he approached a vehicle and the driver inside opened fire, police said. The shooting happened just before 10 p.m. Saturday during a protest in downtown Austin, police spokesperson Katrina Ratliff told reporters early Sunday. The man was taken to a hospital
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LONGVIEW, Texas — A statewide Amber Alert has been issued for a 3-year-old in east Texas who is believed to be in grave danger. ABC affiliate KTRK reports that police in Longview are looking for Neveah Chaseberry, a Black female believed to be 2-feet 6-inches tall, weighs approximately 30 pounds and has black hair and
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EL PASO, Texas — Accused El Paso Walmart gunman Patrick Crusius entered a written plea of not guilty late Thursday to scores of federal hate crime and gun charges he faces stemming from the mass shooting. He also waived the right to a formal arraignment hearing – which ironically had been scheduled for Aug. 3
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EL PASO, Texas — A 26-year-old El Paso man now jailed on animal cruelty charges, allegedly leaving his dog outside in sweltering temperatures to die, had been awaiting trial on weapons charges stemming from a viral video. The El Paso District Attorney’s Office confirmed that Jonathan Jay Oneal, who was being held Thursday in the
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EL PASO, Texas — A second El Pasoan has been arrested, just hours after the first, on animal cruelty charges after police said he left his dog outside in the heat and sun to die. 24–year-old Miguel Angel Valencia was being held Thursday on $5,000 bond in the downtown jail. Investigators said they recently found
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WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Justice Department inspector general said Thursday that it will conduct a review of the conduct of federal agents who responded to unrest in Portland, Oregon and Washington, D.C., following concerns from members of Congress and the public. The watchdog investigation will examine use-of-force allegations in Portland, where the city’s top
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EL PASO, Texas — Fifteen El Pasoans were arrested and face organized crime and felony drug charges after a yearlong probe into gang activity and drug dealing, the Texas Department of Public Safety announced Wednesday. The investigation “targeted members and associates of the Chuco Tango, Surenos, Barrio Azteca and Varrio Glenwood prison and street gangs,”
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney General William Barr announced Wednesday that federal agents will surge into several more states, including New Mexico, to help combat rising crime, expanding the administration’s intervention in local enforcement as Trump runs for reelection under a “law-and-order” mantle. Trump and Barr were joined at the White
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RICHMOND HEIGHTS, Missouri — A large shopping mall near St. Louis was forced to close Wednesday after a shooting, but police said it was not considered an “active shooter incident.” At least two people were injured in the shooting that happened around 12:30 p.m. at the St. Louis Galleria in the St. Louis County town
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EL PASO, Texas — An arrest warrant has been issued for a third man wanted in a murder last month in the Lower Valley that police have called a drug-related slaying. Police on Wednesday said they were looking for 20–year old Gabriel Vega, aka Gabriel Alvarez, who they described as Hispanic, 5’5” tall, weighing 130
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FORT WORTH, Texas — Hundreds of incarcerated women in Texas, including NSA leaker Reality Winner, are at the center of one of the largest coronavirus outbreaks at a federal correctional facility in the country. At least 510 detainees and three staff at Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, have tested positive for Covid-19,
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EL PASO, Texas — A 19-year-old burglary suspect was recently held at gunpoint by the victim’s son until police arrived, authorities said Tuesday. El Paso police responded to a home burglary earlier this month along the 1400 block of East Nevada Avenue in central El Paso. According to police, a man broke into the home
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EL PASO, Texas — There have been 377 confirmed cases of coronavirus among inmates and staff at El Paso County’s two jails to date, according to new data released by the Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday. Mass testing at both the downtown jail and the jail annex has shown an overall positivity rate of 8%, the
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso County Detention Facility has recorded its first death stemming from coronavirus, officials confirmed Monday. The victim was a man in his 70s who was a civilian employee at the downtown jail, said County Judge Ricardo Samaniego. The man died Friday from complications due to Covid-19. The El Paso
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EL PASO, Texas — A west El Paso church was the target of significant destruction by vandals, a church pastor said Monday evening. Pastor Jared Nieman said there was an “incredible amount of damage done today from vandalism” at the Abundant Living Faith Center West, located at 7100 Desert Boulevard North. In all, there were
Continue Reading ST. LOUIS, Missouri — The Missouri couple seen in a viral video brandishing guns at protesters outside their mansion have been charged, the St. Louis circuit attorney said Monday. Patricia and Mark McCloskey are charged with unlawful use of a weapon, a class E felony, according to the complaint. “It is illegal to wave weapons
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A former police officer in Las Curces had his initial court appearance Monday afternoon on a second-degree murder charge after prosecutors said he killed a detainee he had placed in a chokehold. Former officer Christopher Smelser’s first appearance was conducted via teleconference amid Covid-19 court precautions. He had been free
Continue Reading HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — A 23-year-old Texas man allegedly shot his grandmother early Sunday and tried to stage her death as a drive-by shooting, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office. Marcus Hanson has been charged with the murder of his grandmother, 68-year-old Shelia Crosslin, the sheriff’s office said in a statement. Deputies responding to
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – Later this year, Doña Ana County will eliminate the position of undersheriff, the sheriff confirmed to ABC-7. “It was just not a position that really meets the 21st century,” Sheriff Kim Stewart told ABC-7 on Saturday. Undersheriff Jaime Quezada’s last day will be Sept. 30, the sheriff confirmed. He told
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Long before his use of a controversial police tactic that took a man’s life, Christopher Smelser’s mother told ABC-7 her son was a kind and loving student, athlete and public servant. “The way we raised him was to be respectful and to have ambition and goals,” said Selina Smelser, Christopher’s
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EL PASO, Texas — A man wanted for a shooting was arrested after he fled into a far east El Paso desert area and was found by sheriff’s deputies. Officials said Friday that David Rangel, 37, was being held in the downtown jail on $60,000 bond on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly
Continue Reading LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — New Mexico’s attorney general is taking over the prosecution of a former Las Cruces police officer who used a deadly chokehold and is upgrading the criminal charge against him to second-degree murder, officials announced Thursday. Christopher Smelser, accused of killing a man who led police on a foot chase, had
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EL PASO, Texas — It’s been nearly a year since the Cielo Vista Walmart mass shooting claimed the lives of 23 people.For months, director Charlie Minn has been gathering video and interviews from the victims for a documentary film titled “915.” A focus group attending a screening Wednesday night before the documentary is released got
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CLICK HERE for El Paso County 2020 Runoff Election Results EL PASO, Texas — Yvonne Rosales defeated James Montoya Tuesday night in the Democratic runoff to become El Paso’s next district attorney. Rosales’ victory over Montoya in the runoff came after the pair were the top two finishers in the four-candidate March Democratic primary. She
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UPDATE, July 14: El Paso police announced Tuesday they had taken a Juarez man into custody who was suspected of assaulting women joggers. But shortly after 18–year old Miguel Luna was arrested Tuesday, he was released after being cited for two counts of assault. His arrest came after police put out a public call for
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EL PASO, Texas — A second man has now been arrested in a stabbing and shooting incident that took place in northeast El Paso over the July Fourth weekend, police said Tuesday. 24-year-old Luis Hernandez was taken into police custody after he was released from the hospital on Monday. Hernandez had been recovering from a
Continue Reading TERRE HAUTE, Indiana — The U.S. on Tuesday carried out its first federal execution in almost two decades, killing by lethal injection a man convicted of murdering an Arkansas family in a 1990s plot to build a whites-only nation in the Pacific Northwest. The execution of Daniel Lewis Lee, over the objection of the victims’ relatives
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso police officials expressed dismay Monday at the number of recently opened animal cruelty cases that are related to dog owners leaving their animals out in the heat. The police animal cruelty unit has become busy with seven such cases uncovered over the past two weeks. Officials indicated all the
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — Lawyers for the man charged with shooting scores of people in a racist attack at El Paso’s Cielo Vista Walmart say their client has diagnosed mental disabilities that should be a “red flag” for federal prosecutors considering whether to seek the death penalty. Patrick Crusius “has been diagnosed with severe, lifelong
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