LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A Las Cruces woman was arrested on a felony charge after allegedly hitting her neighbor in the head with a large rock and seriously injuring her, authorities said Wednesday. Jessica Lee Griewahn, 26, was being held without bond at the Dona Ana County Detention Center on one count of aggravated
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EL PASO, Texas — Walmart will unveil its “Grand Candela” memorial on Saturday outside its newly reopened Cielo Vista store. The memorial will honor the 22 victims who lost their lives during the Aug. 3 mass shooting. The memorial is comprised of 22 aluminum arcs grouped together into one single, 30-foot candle. The Grand Candela
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El Paso is one of America’s safest cities. But we’re not immune to crime. Join ABC-7’sStephanie Valle on our very own BORDERLAND CRIMES podcast focusing on high-profile murders that have happened in El Paso. These podcasts dive deep into stories that grip the Borderland community with details that rarely make the news — but deserve to
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A college professor was found shot to death on a sidewalk. Detectives learn the victim and his ex-wife were in the midst of a custody battle so bitter, months before his murder she had secretly fled to Mexico with their daughter. Around that time, the professor’s former father-in-law was looking for a ‘sicario,’ someone who
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A former radio DJ lays dead inside his apartment. Detectives believe his death is connected to a tip about a case of a possible kidnapping and murder. The investigation uncovered a twisted relationship that may have entangled the victim and led to his death.
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EL PASO, Texas — Authorities executed a search warrant at a house in east El Paso in connection with an “alien smuggling” investigation, according to a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It happened Tuesday just after 6 a.m. in the 11900 block of Royal Woods Drive. ICE spokeswoman Leticia Zamarripa told ABC-7 that several
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EL PASO, Texas — The new special agent in charge of the El Paso FBI office says encrypted messages shared by domestic terrorist groups could provide crucial information about planned attacks. Luis Quesada took the helm as the special agent in charge of the El Paso FBI office on Nov. 4th. Quesda says not all
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EL PASO, Texas — It has been two years since the death of Rogelio Martinez, a Border patrol agent from El Paso. To this day, his cause of death remains a mystery. The case made news around the world, but the investigation remains open. Right before he died, Martinez was patrolling in a remote and
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EL PASO, Texas — No matter how you were affected, you probably remember where you were on August 3rd, the morning an active shooter entered the Cielo Vista Walmart and took 22 lives. “I remember our phones going off with alerts from the police saying to stay clear of the area,” said El Paso resident
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FRESNO, California — A group of family and friends were gathered in a backyard Sunday to watch a football game when a gunman walked up and began shooting, killing four young men and wounding six others, police in Fresno said. About 35 to 40 people were at the house, including several children, when the suspect
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SAN DIEGO, California — Five people, including three children, are dead in a case of domestic violence in the Paradise Hills neighborhood of San Diego on Saturday, authorities said. The incident was a “tragic case of domestic violence, murder suicide,” said Lt. Matt Dobbs with San Diego’s homicide unit. One of the victims, the 29-year-old
Continue Reading PLEASANTVILLE, New Jersey — Police have charged five men in connection with a shooting at a New Jersey high school football game that injured one adult and two minors. The shooting happened Friday during a game between Camden and Pleasantville high schools in Pleasantville, ABC affiliate WPVI-TV reported. It started at the end of the
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SANTA CLARITA, California — Nathaniel Tennosuke Berhow, the 16-year-old gunman who shot himself after killing two classmates and wounding three other students has died at a hospital, authorities said. The junior at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita died Friday afternoon, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said. The teen opened fire at the school
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Data collected by U.S. outlets seems to support a claim made earlier this week by the mayor of Juarez that American guns are responsible for many of the killings taking place in Mexico. In fact, according to the U.S. government’s own records, the bulk of the American guns ending up in
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso County District Attorney’s Office late Friday signaled that it intended to a prosecute an El Paso City Council member recently arrested for alleged domestic violence. District 4 Rep. Sam Morgan is accused of assaulting his wife on Oct. 4; he was arrested after his wife called police claiming he
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EL PASO, Texas — Schools across the country are grappling with how to prepare students for an emergency in an era of mass shootings. The Pew Research Center found 57 percent of teens told researchers they worry about a shooting happening at school. The survey shows parents felt even more apprehensive. “With what happened recently
Continue Reading SANTA CLARITA, California — A teen whose birthday was Thursday went to his Southern California high school, pulled a pistol from his backpack and shot five classmates and himself in 16 seconds, authorities said. Two victims — a 16-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy — died at a hospital. Three students were wounded and taken
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — Erika Contreras still shivers whenever she drives by or pumps gas near the Cielo Vista Walmart in El Paso where an assailant gunned down 22 people over the summer. Sometimes, she and her 70-year-old mother can’t fight the tears — but they know they can’t stay away forever. “I know it’s
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Two murder cases in New Mexico with the alleged suspects attempting to kill themselves in the span of several days. Juan Lopez-Banos is accused of killing his wife, 41-year-old Amberly Busby Lopez, then attempting to kill himself on Saturday on the 3100 block of Posada Court in Las Cruces. According
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EL PASO, Texas — Newly obtained court documents allege that an El Paso father charged with his daughter’s murder confessed to killing the teen during a violent fight over her cell phone. A police affidavit in support of the arrest of 39-year-old Ghari Ingraham, obtained Thursday by ABC-7, contends he admitted to throwing his 17-year-old
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — It’s described as the ‘cutting-edge’ active shooter response training for law enforcement and first responders. The Active Attack Integrated Response (AAIR) course, recently implemented by the ALERRT Center at Texas State University, is being taught to several agencies in the Borderland. What makes the course unique is the integration of
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EL PASO, Texas — “Moving forward,” that’s the message from the Ceilo Vista Walmart store’s general manager Robert Evans. He sat down Wednesday afternoon with ABC-7 to talk about how he — along his 350-plus associates — will help everyone heal from the El Paso tragedy of Aug. 3 as they reopen the store to
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Juarez Mayor Héctor Armando Cabada Alvídrez said Wednesday that the majority of the recent violence in Juarez is being caused by people using firearms illegally brought into Juarez. And he noted that those firearms are coming from the United States. “The majority of the firearms that are used in Mexico, not
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — A father has been arrested on a murder charge after police identified his teenage daughter as the body found over the weekend in the water of the Rio Grande in west El Paso. Drownings of migrants in the fast currents along the Rio Grande are not unusual, but in this case
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Authorities offered a $2,000 reward Wednesday trying to figure out how a man ended up unresponsive and lying along a Las Cruces roadway earlier this month. Tom Henry Croy, 44, has since died at University Medical Center of El Paso after being discovered on Nov. 6 in the 200 block
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HONDO, Texas — A statewide Amber Alert was issued Wednesday for 14-year-old girl from Hondo whom police believed was in “immediate danger” after going missing nearly a month ago. Eva Marie Garcia was last seen at her family’s home during the early morning hours of Oct. 16. Her family told police they have not had
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A man has been arrested for murder in the shooting death of another man earlier this week at a Las Cruces apartment complex, police said Wednesday. Isaac Joe Vargas, 42, of Dona Ana, was booked Tuesday night into the Dona Ana County Detention Center on a charge of first-degree felony
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FORT BLISS, Texas (KVIA) — Texas has seen several mass shootings just within the last two years — the Sutherland Springs church shooting, the Santa Fe High School shooting, the Walmart shooting in El Paso and most recently in Odessa. Dozens of lives were taken in those four mass shootings. The Texas Department of Public
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EL PASO, Texas — A pair of men with gang affiliations were arrested following a weekend fight at a Lower Valley home that ended with two other men being stabbed and seriously wounded, authorities said Wednesday. Police indicated 30-year-old Gustavo Manzo of Horizon City, and 29-year-old Jose Melendez of El Paso were booked into the
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EL PASO, Texas — A police chase of a wanted fugitive through the Lower Valley on Tuesday night ended with a car going up in flames and exploding. The vehicle was being chased by deputies with the San Elizario Marshal’s Office after the driver fled about 7 p.m. from the scene of a a traffic
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