Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin on Tuesday accused state authorities of selectively releasing information about last month’s school shooting to scapegoat local law enforcement and intentionally leaving out details about the state’s response to the massacre. New details emerged this week about the timeline of the shooting based on surveillance video from the school’s hallways and
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CNN By Lauren Fox, CNN The Senate’s compromise legislation on gun safety unveiled on Tuesday, potentially the most significant new federal gun safety measure in decades, includes money for school safety, mental health, state crisis intervention programs and incentives for states to include juvenile records in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, which would
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso police officer was bitten by a handcuffed suspect who had been stopped for not having a vehicle registration sticker, according to El Paso police. Investigators say it happened at the 12000 block of Castle Keep, located off Pebble Hills Blvd near Loop 375. Police arrested 37-year-old Rogelio Fernando
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EL PASO, Texas – El Paso Police Special Traffic Investigators say Cecil Blesh O’Neal III, 48, was hit and killed by a car on Saturday, June 18, just after 10 p.m. at the 9500 block of McCombs. Investigators say O’Neal was crossing the southbound lanes when he was struck. Video surveillance shows a car speeding.
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By Tierney Sneed, Ariane de Vogue, Jessica Schneider and Paul LeBlanc, CNN The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Virginia man who is seeking to challenge one of his convictions for using a firearm in an attempted robbery. The ruling will allow the man to attempt to reduce his sentence by 10 years. In
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The Texas Tribune has reviewed law enforcement transcripts and footage that federal and state investigators are examining after the May 24 tragedy. The officers in the hallway of Robb Elementary wanted to get inside classrooms 111 and 112 — immediately. One officer’s daughter was inside. Another officer had gotten a call from his wife, a
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso Police responded to an unattended death call at the 1200 block of Laurel in central El Paso. Responding officers noticed suspicious activity and called for detectives from the Crimes Against Person division. Investigators say they found a man dead at the scene but did not provide an age or
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UVALDE, Texas — A new photo from inside Robb Elementary shows multiple officers inside Robb Elementary with rifles and at least one ballistic shield nine minutes after the gunman arrived. The video footage was obtained by KVUE and its news partners at the Austin American-Statesman. The 18-year-old gunman killed 19 students and two teachers with
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Watch the news conference here. With Texas schools restarting classes in less than two months, Texas Senate Democrats renewed calls Monday for Gov. Greg Abbott to bring lawmakers back to Austin this summer to enact legislation that might prevent another mass shooting like the one at a Uvalde elementary school that killed 19 students and
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AUSTIN, Texas – The Texas Senate Democratic Caucus is asking Governor Greg Abbott to call for a special legislative session to address school safety and mass shootings. State Senator Cesar Blanco, who represents multiple west Texas counties including El Paso, was not present at the news briefing due to a Covid-19 diagnosis. Blanco said there’s
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A Las Cruces business manager is upset over repeated business break-ins. The Safe-Haven Animal Sanctuary thrift store was broken into over the weekend. This is the second break-in in six months, costing thousands of dollars in damage. It’s a trend that ABC-7 learned has become common in the El Paseo
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker, CNN US Marshals arrested 24 violent fugitives earlier this month during a five-day operation that involved multiple law enforcement agencies in Oregon, authorities said. The operation was conducted in Multnomah County, Portland, between June 7 and June 11 and targeted violent fugitives with the goal of reducing street-level criminal activity and arresting
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker, CNN US Customs and Border Protection officers have seized $60,000 worth of methamphetamine hidden in child booster seats at a checkpoint in California, the agency said. Agents assigned to the Newton Azrak Border Patrol Station in Murrieta stopped a driver on an interstate north of the checkpoint on Wednesday. There were two
Continue Reading By Ehsan Popalzai and Irene Nasser, CNN Gunmen launched an attack on a Sikh Gurdwara in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Saturday, killing at least two people, Kabul police chief spokesman Khalid Zadran said. Seven attackers tried to storm the temple in the early hours of Saturday morning, throwing grenades at security guards who were standing
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EL PASO, Texas — A 44-year-old man has been charged with sexually assaulting a then 15-year-old girl, according to El Paso police. The victim, now 28, said Eduardo Pinuelas sexually assaulted her at an apartment on the 900 block of Zaragoza after soccer practice on Sept. 1, 2008. According to documents, Pinuelas was the victim’s
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — A 41-year-old El Paso man is facing a federal count of coercion or enticement of a minor. According to El Paso’s FBI office, Shamsadean Jermaine Bowie was arrested Thursday. “I am proud of the work done by FBI El Paso’s Child Exploitation & Human TraffickingTask Force to ensure that another child
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EL PASO, Texas — The bodies of a Guatemalan national and a Mexican national were found dumped on the eastbound on-ramp of I-10 east of Van Horn, according to Homeland Security Investigations. The victims were identified as Rosenda Gomez-Lopez, from Guatemala, and Edgar Vividor-Rodriguez, from Mexico. Investigators say the two may have died from heat
Continue Reading By Jason Hanna, CNN A 70-year-old man who shot dead three senior citizens at an Alabama church group’s meeting Thursday evening was subdued by someone else at the event until police arrived, authorities said Friday. The suspect, who is in custody, shot dead Walter Rainey, 84, and Sarah Yeager, 75, during a small group’s potluck
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By Kate Bennett, CNN First lady Dr. Jill Biden revealed on Friday she has often envisioned what it would be like if there was a shooting in one of the classrooms in which she teaches. “As a teacher, I’ve imagined that scene in my own classroom, again and again,” said Biden during remarks at the
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Update: Video of the shooting appears to show two gunmen carried out the attack. As many as five people were shot, four died, and another person was injured, according to the District Attorney’s office in Juarez. The fifth person who was shot reportedly suffered non-life-threatening injuries. EL PASO, Texas — Two men and two women
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EL PASO, Texas — A 29-year-old El Paso man pleaded guilty this week to receiving and distributing a visual depiction involving the sexual exploitation of a minor, according to federal officials. Investigators say Kevin Holguin-Cano faces 20 years in prison. No scheduled date has been set. Officials say the case was brought as part of
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EL PASO, Texas — A 17-year-old has been charged with aggravated assault after police say he threatened his family with a machete taped to his hand. El Paso police say it happened Wednesday around 11:08 a.m. at an apartment on the 200 block of Lisbon Street. Investigators say Daniel Roque also broke windows to the
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – A 39-year-old man is recovering after being shot in Las Cruces on Wednesday. The Las Cruces Police Department revealed that they found the man around 5:40 p.m. at the Mesilla Valley Apartments, located on 1050 S. Triviz Dr. They say that he had been shot at least once. He was
Continue Reading By Benjamin Brown and Jorge Engels Dutch authorities say they have thwarted an attempt by a Russian spy to gain access to the International Criminal Court (ICC) by posing as an intern. According to the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD), a suspected operative of Russia’s GRU military intelligence service had posed as a
Continue Reading By Jeremy Herb, Marshall Cohen and Zachary Cohen, CNN The House select committee investigating the Capitol insurrection on Thursday detailed how former President Donald Trump tried to pressure his vice president to join in his scheme to overturn the presidential election — and how Mike Pence’s refusal put his life in danger as rioters called
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Editor’s note: The hearing will begin at 11 a.m. WASHINGTON — The Jan. 6 committee will focus on a pressure campaign on Vice President Mike Pense to help overturn the election. Testimony will include members of Pence’s former counsel, Greg Jacob and retired federal Judge Michael Luttig.
Continue Reading Actor Kevin Spacey was granted bail during his first appearance at a London court since authorities charged him with five offenses, including four counts of sexual assault. CNN’s Nina Dos Santos has more on what comes next.
Continue Reading By Sarah Boxer, Dakin Andone and Laura Ly, CNN The 18-year-old accused of killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket last month apologized to his family for carrying out the mass shooting, writing in a note he “had to commit this attack” because he cared “for the future of the White race,”
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua — Chihuahua’s former governor has six months to prepare for his embezzlement and criminal association trial. Last week, Cesar Duarte Jáquez’s defense team was granted extra time to prepare his legal case. Duarte was Chihuahua’s governor from 2010 to 2016. During his tenure, he was accused of stealing money from the state. Duarte
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ANTHONY, Texas — A man wanted for murder in Anthony, Mexico, was caught in Texas, after nearly three months on the run, according to officials. Members of the Anthony, Texas police department assigned to the Lone Star Fugitive Taskforce took Alejandro Salas into custody Wednesday around noon. Officials say he was taken into custody without
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