By Dakin Andone and Michelle Watson, CNN A 27-year-old Muslim man killed last week in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is being remembered as a “brilliant public servant” committed to “improving conditions and inclusivity for disadvantaged minorities,” according to the mayor of the city he worked for. Police believe the death of Muhammad Afzaal Hussain on August
Continue Reading By Zenebou Sylla and Samantha Beech, CNN Authorities are searching for at least two gunmen after nine people were injured in a shooting in downtown Cincinnati early Sunday, police said. The shooting in the city’s Over-the-Rhine neighborhood occurred shortly before 2 a.m., when more than a dozen shots were fired into a large crowd after
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Ali Jeylani knows you shouldn’t pick favorites when it comes to family members, but of his seven siblings, he’s always had a soft spot for his younger brother, Issa. Maybe it’s their shared love of soccer, their admiration for Real Madrid and Cristiano Ronaldo, or maybe it’s simply that the pair
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Las Cruces police are looking for any information that will help identify the suspects who were involved in a road-rage incident that left a 3-year-old hospitalized. Police say they are looking for the driver and passenger of a blue Honda Civic, pictured at the top of this story. Investigators say
Continue Reading By Faith Karimi, CNN Angela Welch still recalls every detail. The stocky gunman in a camo vest. The gunshots, one after another. The piercing screams, echoing through the building. The muffled sobs. Welch was a high school sophomore in Olivehurst, California, when a former student entered her school on a Friday afternoon with a 12-gauge
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A 3-year-old girl was rushed to University Medical Center after being injured following a shooting that Las Cruces police say may be a result of road rage. Police say the incident happened around 3:30 p.m near the corner of Amador Avenue and Valley Drive. Police ask anyone with information to
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UPDATE: According to documents obtained by ABC-7, a 12-year-old girl told a counselor she had been abused by SGT. Lorenzo Morales, when she was six years old. The girl claims Morales touched her in her private area. Morales told investigators he never touched the victim in a sexual manner. The indictment states the the victim
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UPDATE: New Mexico State Police say there is no reason to suspect a man driving into a parade in Gallup was motivated by hate. Police add there were no shots fired during the incident, and they denied reports circulating on social media regarding fatalities. Police arrested 33-year-old Jeff Kenn Irving, or Pinedale. Investigators say officers
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EL PASO, Texas — A 34-year-old El Paso man posed as a “local juvenile” on social media, using that account to share images of child pornography, according to El Paso police. Police arrested Jose Ray Jarvis on August 1. He was booked into the El Paso County Detention Facility for online impersonation, two counts of
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UPDATE: Texas Department of Public Safety officials say a 15-year-old girl, who is a U.S. citizen, was driving the car that crashed at N Mesa and Osborne Drive Thursday afternoon. According to officials, there were several undocumented non-citizens in the trunk of the car at the time of the crash. An exact number was not
Continue Reading By Eliott C. McLaughlin, Sonia Moghe and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Four current and former Louisville police officers involved in the deadly raid on Breonna Taylor’s home — including detectives who worked on the search warrant and the ex-officer accused of firing blindly into her home — have been charged with civil rights violations and other
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EL PASO, Texas — Three years after the August 3rd Cielo Vista Walmart shooting, Cecilia Medina still carries the emotional wounds from that day. She was tidying up her area as a Walmart Associate, doing a job that’s brought her joy for more than 25 years, when she heard popping noises. “The noise. The popping.
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso man was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after police say he fired upon a family of five inside a car in east El Paso. Police say the incident happened July 11 at 6500 Airport Road at 6:55 p.m. According to investigators, 42-year-old Gilbert Rodelas of
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Las Cruces police say a beer theft investigation escalated into a deadly shooting that took the life of a 36-year-old man Tuesday afternoon at a Chevron gas station on S. Valley Drive. According to LCPD, two men entered the gas station store, and one of them took beer without paying.
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Residents in Las Cruces have been near shootings in well-known areas. The most recent shooting happened Tuesday night at the Chevron gas station on South Valley and University Avenue. Full details of that shooting haven’t been released, but the Las Cruces Police Department confirmed one man was shot and killed,
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess and Ashley Killough, CNN Cooper Roberts, the 8-year-old boy left paralyzed in the 4th of July parade mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, has been transferred to a rehabilitation facility after almost a month in pediatric intensive care, according to family spokesman Anthony Loizzi. The medical team at the rehab facility, Shirley
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UPDATE: Las Cruces police say no officers were injured in this incident. One man was shot and killed. According to Dan Trujillo, Las Cruces Police spokesman, the area will be blocked off through the night, possibly through the morning. Police dispatch received a call about an incident around 4:20 p.m. Tuesday. LAS CRUCES, New Mexico
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A Doña Ana County Grand Jury indicted three people in the dog mauling incident involving the Nov. 22, 2021, death of 6-year-old Avery Jackson-Dunphy. Avery’s mother, Danika Jackson, grandfather Kevin Owens and grandmother Leslie Owens are all facing charges. Avery’s father Patrick Dunphy, was not included in the charges. “At
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Texas’ juvenile prison system is nearing total collapse. Its five lockups are dangerously understaffed, an ongoing problem that worsened dramatically last year when its turnover rate hit more than 70%. The state has desperately tried to recruit employees, but most new hires are gone within six months. Teachers and caseworkers routinely work in security roles
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SANTA TERESA, New Mexico — A 19-year-old man is facing multiple charges in connection to a deadly crash in Santa Teresa, where two people believed to be migrants were killed, and nine others were injured. New Mexico state police released the suspect’s arrest photo today. he’s 19-year-old julio garcia-rascon, of Juarez. He was arrested after being released
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso county commissioners approved a late-night curfew for juveniles who are found in public places. The new curfew extends an older order, saying juveniles under the age of 17 cannot be in public places between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m., the same curfew that is already instituted in city limits.
Continue Reading By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A federal judge on Monday sentenced Guy Reffitt, who brought a gun to the US Capitol during the January 6, 2021, riot and threatened House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, to more than seven years in prison, the longest insurrection-related sentence to date. Reffitt, a recruiter for a right-wing militia known as the
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A man was convicted Monday in the 2016 death of an Albuquerque girl who was strangled, dismembered and set on fire in the bathtub of her mother’s apartment on her 10th birthday. The jury deliberated less than four hours before returning with guilty verdicts on all charges Fabian Gonzales faced in
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso County workers have been asked to work remotely for the week after a threat was made to the courthouse, officials said. The threat made early Monday morning via social media claimed a bomb was going to be placed at the entrance of a courtroom and that it was in
Continue Reading By Tina Burnside and Holly Yan, CNN At least seven shooting victims were hospitalized Sunday after a melee in downtown Orlando, Florida. The violence erupted around 2 a.m. ET Sunday after a large fight broke out, Orlando Police Chief Eric D. Smith said. An unidentified assailant pulled out a handgun and fired into the crowd,
Continue Reading By Faith Karimi, CNN Lawrence and Bianca Rudolph shared a passion for big game hunting. In late September 2016, the couple traveled from their Phoenix home to the southern African nation of Zambia, where Bianca Rudolph was determined to add a leopard to her collection of animal trophies. They carried two guns for the hunt:
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A fight broke out Saturday afternoon at a Hooters resulting in a shooting, according to officials at the Las Cruces Police Department. The shooting happened around 3 p.m at the Hooters near Mesilla Valley Mall. A fight between multiple people broke out in the parking lot of the restaurant and
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ANTHONY, Texas — Shots were fired in the parking lot of the Flying J truck stop in Anthony, TX Friday evening. Police believe that around 6:30 p.m., an attempted robbery between two men occurred, shots were fired, and the shooter fled. No injuries have been reported at this time. The shooter is believed to be
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker, CNN Twenty-eight incarcerated women in Indiana have alleged in two separate federal lawsuits that they were threatened or sexually assaulted, including two who said they were raped, last year by men incarcerated at the same facility who, according to one of the lawsuits, bribed a corrections officer with $1,000 to obtain the
Continue Reading By Ray Sanchez, CNN Officials found more than $2 million in methamphetamine hidden in a vehicle at the Rio Grande City Port of Entry in Texas, US Customs and Border Protection say. CBP officers from the Rio Grande City International Bridge discovered it Sunday in a 2012 Dodge that arrived from Mexico, Port Director Andres
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