UPDATE (10:11) A man was found shot in an apartment complex. He is believed to have been in his 40s or 50s. EL PASO, Texas — El Paso police are investigating a deadly shooting. No one has been taken into custody, according to police. Police say they are in the early stages of the investigation.
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EL PASO, Texas — A man asleep in the driver’s seat of a car facing against traffic while holding a handgun was found in possession of thousands of fentanyl pills, according to El Paso police. Police arrested 35-year-old Jevshua Muniz after finding him Tuesday at 10:30 p.m. at the 100 block of Locust in south-central
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ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico – Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents report they rescued three undocumented migrants from Guatemala being held for ransom. The suspected hostage takers were taken into custody. The Albuquerque Police Department assisted with the rescue of a mother and her two daughters – ages 5 and 9. A relative of the three migrants
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EL PASO, Texas – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested two undocumented migrants after investigation revealed they had assaulted a federal office near Ascarate Park on Halloween. Kevin Escalona Gonzalez and Yuleixy Mata Fuentes were taken into custody and charged them with the assault. The FBI said a U.S. Border Patrol agent were advised
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso Police say they are looking for two male occupants of a sports car after a road rage shooting at Mesa and Crossroads Saturday in the upper valley. Police say the driver of an SUV was fired upon after cutting off the sports car while making a U-turn. The driver’s
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso police say an anonymous tip in a hit-and-run investigation led to the arrest of 42-year-old Hector Octavio Saenz. The crash happened Sunday at 3:30 am on I-10 east near the Dallas exit. Saenz was charged with accident involving death and booked on a $10,000 bond.
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A resolution that requests the demolition of the Kilby Motel in Las Cruces will be voted on Monday. The motel is located at 1045 S. Main St. As KVIA has reported, the City ordered the motel to operate at a reduced capacity after portions of the motel did not meet
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EL PASO, Texas – A man in his late 60s was taken into custody by El Paso Police in connection to a capital murder case from 1994. The bodies of three people, including a child, were discovered at a house in the 1800-block of Garden Gate on August 11, 1994. Police investigators found evidence that
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Texas 8th Court of Appeals has ruled that a murder indictment can remain in place on a man accused of shooting and killing another man outside an East El Paso bar nearly six years ago. In a ruling posted Nov. 2, the appellate court upheld the trial court’s ruling
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EL PASO, Texas — Curtis Cox, the lead prosecutor in the Walmart shooter case has withdrawn from the case, according to a letter obtained by ABC-7. In a letter to Judge Sam Medrano, Cox says, “While it is not the practice of Assistant District Attorneys in the 34th Judicial District to formally withdraw from specific
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EL PASO, Texas — A 26-year-old man is accused of killing his 75-year-old grandfather, according to El Paso police. The victim, identified as Rodolfo Murphy Sr., was found Saturday in his basement with multiple stab wounds. His grandson, Paul Jeremy Martinez was arrested Wednesday. Police responded to a missing person call on Saturday at 5600
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso police say a 16-year-old was taken into custody after shooting at two teenagers who were walking home Tuesday night. A 13-year-old and 14-year-old were walking at Capistrano Park just after 7 p.m. when police say a 16-year-old drove by and shot at the boys. The 14-year-old was hit and
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(CNN) — [Breaking news update, published at 4:40 p.m. ET] The gunman who carried out the Parkland school shooting was formally sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Wednesday, after a jury last month recommended that life sentence instead of the death penalty, angering many of the families of the 17 people
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso police are searching for a driver they say shot at a victim in a road rage incident Tuesday night in the upper valley. According to police, it happened at the 3200 block of Doniphan when a victim was being tail-gated by another car in a one-lane construction zone. Police
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The capital murder trial of a man accused of killing a state attorney and wounding her husband is delayed until next year. Joseph Alvarez’s trial was supposed to begin on Friday, Nov. 4. He is charged with shooting Georgette Kaufmann on Nov. 14, 2020. Police say Alvarez shot Kaufmann in her garage
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Editor’s note: A previous version of this story included incorrect details of a request to check the classroom of teacher Eva Mireles early in the police response. The request was to check Mireles’ room, 112, not the adjoining 111. It was made by an unidentified male official, not a dispatcher. And class was reported to
Continue Reading By Shimon Prokupecz, Matthew J. Friedman and Rachel Clarke, CNN “I’m in classroom 112,” the little girl tells the police dispatcher. “Please hurry. There is a lot of dead bodies.” The clear plea comes in a 12:10 p.m. call from Khloie Torres, then 10 years old and trapped at Robb Elementary School with a gunman
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EL PASO, Texas — A Las Cruces man has been sentenced to 31 years in prison for kidnapping and carjacking relating to a June 2017 attack against an off-duty Border Patrol Agent in El Paso. Fernando Angel Puga, 37, was found guilty in the attack back in May. According to documents, the agent was working
Continue Reading By Amir Vera, John Miller and Brynn Gingras, CNN A suspect accused of shooting two police officers in Newark, New Jersey, Tuesday was still at large following an hours-long search of a building where he was last seen, officials said. An arrest warrant was issued for Kendall Howard, 30, charging him with two counts of
Continue Reading By Amanda Musa and Amanda Watts, CNN A New York man has pleaded guilty to criminal sexual conduct charges in Michigan, more than 20 years after he began abusing two minors while he was involved with the Boy Scouts of America, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said. Mark Chapman, 52, pleaded guilty to one count
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EL PASO, Texas — A 50-year-old woman is under arrest in connection to an Oct. 10 fire near the fuel pumps of a west El Paso convenience store. Officials say Sharon Ann Falk intentionally set a fire at the 4200 block of N. Mesa St. Falk was arrested on Oct. 11. Her bond was set
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(CNN) — The man alleged to have attacked Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was charged on Monday with federal counts of assault and attempted kidnapping. David DePape, 42, was charged with one count of “attempted kidnapping of a US official on account of the performance of official duties,” according to the
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By Devan Cole, CNN The man who is alleged to have attacked Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is expected to be charged with multiple felonies Monday as the shock and horror over the attack continues to cast a pall over Washington. David DePape, 42, faces potential charges of attempted homicide, assault
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker, Barbara MacDonald and Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN A five-and-a-half-year nationwide search for a suspect in the killings of two Indiana teens ended with the arrest of a local man, authorities said Monday. How investigators came to arrest 50-year-old Richard M. Allen, of Delphi, will remain a mystery for now, as a court
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso police are investigating a suspicious death in South Central El Paso Saturday night. Officials say the death happened on the 5600 block of Webster avenue, which intersects Paisano drive. The Crimes Against Persons unit of the El Paso police department is currently investigating the death. The department will be
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EL PASO, Texas — A Texas judge reduced the cash bond for the two brothers accused in a fatal migrant shooting last month. Brothers Michael and Mark Sheppard allegedly shot at a group of thirteen migrants in Hudspeth County. One of those migrants died. The Sheppards were arrested. Their bond was initially set at $250,000
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EL PASO, Texas — Police are responding to a shooting that injured a man in the lower valley. The shooting was reported around 5 p.m. near Hacienda Heights Elementary School. The 18-year-old victim suffered two gunshot wounds, one in the chest and one in the leg. This is a developing news story. Download the KVIA
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EL PASO, Texas — A 30-year-old El Paso man who admitted to coercing a 4-year-old in his production of child porn has been sentenced to over 16 years in prison. U.S. District Court Judge David C. Guaderrama also ordered Jorge Mario Minjarrez-Reyes to be placed on a lifetime of supervised release, and Minjarrez-Reyes must pay
Continue Reading By Casey Tolan, Curt Devine, Daniel A. Medina and Majlie de Puy Kamp, CNN The man who allegedly attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband early Friday posted memes and conspiracy theories on Facebook about Covid vaccines, the 2020 election and the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, and an acquaintance told CNN that he
Continue Reading Originally Published: 28 OCT 22 08:43 ET Updated: 28 OCT 22 10:51 ET By Whitney Wild, John Miller and Clare Foran, CNN (CNN) — Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was attacked with a hammer at the couple’s home in San Francisco by a male assailant early Friday morning, law enforcement sources tell
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