West Texas authorities late Friday afternoon announced the arrest of a “possible serial gunman” in the Odessa area after four similar shootings, one of them deadly, occurred this week. The Ector County Sheriff, who didn’t immediately release the suspect’s name, had urged residents to be “cautious” and report any suspicious behavior to 911. All of
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A former Dallas police officer says she was “scared to death” when she opened what she thought was her apartment door last year and saw a silhouetted figure standing in the darkness inside. Amber Guyger wept in court as she testified Friday in her murder trial in the killing last September of Botham Jean, who
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An El Paso District judge has ruled that a law firm representing a couple injured in the mass shooting on Aug. 3 will be allowed to inspect the Cielo Vista Walmart store where the tragedy took place. According to a statement Thursday from the Ammons Law Firm, Judge Sergio Enriquez of the 448th District Court
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Texas Department of Public Safety officials overseeing a program Gov. Greg Abbott tapped to help halt potential mass shootings say staffing shortages and privacy concerns stand in the way of taking more preventive action against such massacres. But the department hasn’t specified the current number of analysts participating in what’s called the Suspicious Activity Reporting
Continue Reading The judge in the murder trial of a white Dallas police officer who fatally shot her black neighbor in his apartment blocked the lead investigator from telling jurors Wednesday that he didn’t think the shooting was a crime. David Armstrong of the Texas Department of Public Safety testified for a second day in Amber Guyger’s
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A Doña Ana County Sheriff’s deputy shot and critically wounded a 36-year-old man who authorities said Wednesday had approached the deputy carrying a gun. The shooting happened late Tuesday night in the 6600 block of Chula Vista Road near the intersection of Peachtree Hills Road in the East Mesa area. Officials said the deputy was
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The U.S. House Judiciary Committee held a hearing Wednesday on “Protecting America from Assault Weapons.” During the hearing, the University Medical Center of El Paso surgeon who operated on some victims from the Aug. 3, mass shooting testified. During his testimony, he recalled that day and the moment he arrived at the hospital. Dr. Alejandro
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Police announced an arrest Wednesday night in last week’s shooting death of an El Paso native that happened in a pizza shop parking lot near the University of New Mexico. Authorities said 17-year-old Donovin Santiago has been charged with murder and evidence tampering in the slaying of 33-year-old Leo Jaquez, who was lauded as a
Continue Reading A former Fort Bliss soldier suspected of planning to bomb multiple high-profile targets around the U.S. was once on the “hit list” of a teenager who tried to blow up his high school in South Carolina. Federal authorities late Wednesday indicted Jarrett William Smith, 24, with sharing bomb-making instructions online. Officials said he also discussed
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A federal grand jury late Wednesday formally indicted former Fort Bliss Army soldier Jarrett William Smith, who allegedly discussed bomb-making techniques and suggested targeting a news network and former El Paso Congressman Beto O’Rourke. Smith’s indictment (which you can read at the bottom of this article) comes amid a wave of arrests and charges the
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A Texas inmate who claimed he was intellectually disabled was executed Wednesday for fatally stabbing his two stepsons during an attack more than 12 years ago in their Dallas home that also left his wife dead. Robert Sparks, 45, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the September 2007 slayings of
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A former El Paso boxer was sentenced by a judge Wednesday to 33 years in prison for a drunk driving crash that killed three people on Christmas Eve 2014. Joel Garcia had faced the prospect of 49 1/2 years behind bars after a jury recommended 16 1/2 year sentences on each of three counts of
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The judge assigned to preside over the case of accused Walmart shooter Patrick Crusius has asked that the case be reassigned because she knew one the victims killed in the attack and that person’s family. In a statement released Wednesday, Judge Angie Juarez Barill said because of the conflict she could not accept the assignment.
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A 24–year-old woman who filed an assault report against a grocery store worker was arrested after El Paso police said their investigation revealed she was the one who actually committed the assault. Authorities said Wednesday that Fernanda Barrera-Quezada had called police back in late August and reported that a store employee at the Albertsons at
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The owner of a central El Paso pet grooming business has been arrested and charged him with animal cruelty, police said Tuesday. Investigators said the owner of an 11-month-old husky took her dog to Karlu Pet Grooming. She told police when she picked the dog up, he was limping with “little signs of life.” The
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An El Paso man convicted over three deaths in a drunk driving accident must serve at least 16 1/2 years in prison, jurors determined Tuesday. 25-year-old Joel Garcia Jr. was found guilty of three counts of intoxication manslaughter and jurors returned a decision of 16 1/2 years per count. The judge was weighing whether to
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A Florida school resource officer who arrested and handcuffed two 6-year-old students has been fired, according to Orlando Police Chief Orlando Rolon. After reviewing the facts of the case, Rolon said he had no “other remedy,” but to terminate officer Dennis Turner. “When we first learned about this, we were all appalled,” Rolon said at
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Two cars collided in a drunk driving crash in far east El Paso on Sunday night that killed one of the motorists, police confirmed Monday. It happened at the intersection of Pebble Hills Boulevard and Red Sails Drive about 8 p.m. Sunday. Police on Monday identified the deceased as 30-year-old Joseph Gomez of El Paso.
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A juror was dismissed Monday during the sentencing phase of trial for an El Paso man convicted of killing three people in a drunk driving crash five years ago. Juror #12 was removed in the trial of Joel Garcia just as sentencing deliberations were about to get underway. The juror was replaced with an alternate
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The FBI has arrested a U.S. soldier who allegedly discussed plans to bomb a major American news network, planned to travel to Ukraine to fight with violent far-right group Azov Battalion and allegedly distributed information online on how to build bombs. He also allegedly suggested targeting Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke of El Paso. According
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Juarez set a new homicide record over the weekend with more than 20 killings in a roughly 40-hour period, the state attorney general’s office told Mexican media outlets on Sunday. El Diario reported that among the victims were a child whose body was discovered hours after the murder of his father, and four men gunned
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Marinda Palacios was with Richard Madrigal when he was shot to death in his apartment on June 11, 2016. The man who pulled the trigger was her boyfriend, Leonel Hernandez. “I remember him pulling out his gun, shooting once, and then Rick fell,” Marinda said in a one-on-one interview at the ABC-7 studio in Aug.
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The family of an El Paso native who was shot and killed near the University of New Mexico on Friday night said he died trying to do the right thing. “He is a hero and everybody does needs to know that,” said Ariana Martinez, who is 33-year-old Leo Jaquez’s cousin. She told KOB that he
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Marinda Palacios saw her friend, Rick Madrigal, get shot to death by her boyfriend. Leonel Hernandez was convicted of Rick’s murder. Months after podcast host Stephanie Valle reached out to Marinda, she talks about what happened that night, the hours she spent with the killer after the murder, and how she was accused of murder by Leonel’s
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Authorities on Monday filed new charges against a convicted El Paso murderer they believe also killed a Florida woman in 2004. Terry McDonald has been a suspect in Mary Mount’s death since she was killed. Mount was last seen on Jan. 4, 2004 with McDonald. Her body was found buried in the desert near Sierra
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El Paso police on Monday publicly released mugshots of two men recently arrested, one for a stabbing attack that resulted in serious injuries and the other for a deadly shooting at a bar. Ramon De La Luz, 22, is being held on $100,000 bond on a charge of attempted murder in the stabbing and wounding
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Police in Dallas say a transgender woman was seriously wounded after being shot multiple times and are investigating the attack as a hate crime. Investigators say a man driving a pickup pulled alongside the woman late Friday, yelled slurs about her gender identity and fired several times, striking her in the chest and arm. Authorities
Continue Reading A white Dallas police officer who fatally shot a black neighbor in his own apartment was distracted by a phone call with a colleague with whom she had been romantically involved, a prosecutor said Monday at the start of the officer’s trial. Attorneys for Amber Guyger, 31, argued that she fired in self-defense based on
Continue Reading A Ruidoso police officer has been arrested on suspicion of child solicitation over the internet, the New Mexico State Police confirmed Friday night. According to a statement from state police, 35-year-old Daniel Balding was communicating with someone he thought was a 15-year-old girl online. But in fact, he had been exchanging photos and sexually explicit
Continue Reading A car drove through a Sears storefront at the massive Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg on Friday afternoon and drove around inside the shopping center, which is filled with hundreds of shops and restaurants. A suspect was arrested, authorities said, and the mall was evacuated. Although fire officials initially called it a “mass casualty incident,” there
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