EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso police are investigating the murder of a woman in south-central. Officers discovered her body inside an apartment on the 200 block of Glenwood Tuesday. A spokesman for the police department said a family member of the victim called police to do a welfare check, after not seeing the
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EL PASO, Texas — The 8th Court of Appeals overturned the conviction of Leonel Hernandez and is calling for a new trial. Hernandez was convicted in 2019 for the shooting death of Richard Madrigal, a former KLAQ DJ. Madrigal was killed in his apartment in June 2016. An expert witness for Hernandez said it would
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By Laura Ly, CNN Family members of victims of the mass shooting at Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York, called for gun reform and legislative action against anti-Black hate on Tuesday. The family members spoke in Washington, D.C. after a Senate Judiciary hearing on domestic terrorism in the wake of the Buffalo attack and were
Continue Reading By Whitney Wild, CNN The Department of Homeland Security is warning that threats in the US could become even more volatile throughout the summer and midterm election season, fueled by election year misinformation and potential violence surrounding an upcoming Supreme Court ruling on abortion rights. “Threat actors have recently mobilized to violence due to factors
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EL PASO – A mother arrested for Capital Murder in the death of her 7-month old son last year has reached a plea deal with the El Paso District Attorney’s office. The D.A. said Johnnette Dukes pleaded guilty to Attempted Tampering with Physical Evidence as part of the deal. Dukes is now out of jail
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – In a passionate two-hour long discussion at the Las Cruces City Council on Monday, business members, city leaders and residents grappled with how to solve the issues of homelessness, property crime and poverty. “It’s not a problem with homelessness, it’s not an issue with drugs, it’s an issue with poor
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SANTA TERESA, New Mexico – Special agents with Homeland Security Investigations helped U.S. Border Patrol agents rescue a 1-year-old girl who was separated from her mother by human smugglers, according to officials. Border Patrol agents say they came across a mom and her 11-year-old son near McNutt and Anapra Roads. They were taken to the
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EL PASO, Texas — Socorro police seized two cars, a small amount of drugs, a set of body armor, ammunition and a weapon from a lower valley home in connection to a weekend shooting in Socorro that injured five people. Investigators say the search warrant directly resulted from witness information from the shooting. Socorro police,
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EL PASO, TX – The murder trial of Ricardo Marquez continued today, and witnesses provided their testimony to the court. An officer with the El Paso Police Department was the first witness of the day, and his testimony revealed that he was the one that collected evidence from Marquez’s brother-in-law’s Jeep. Pictures of the Jeep’s
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EL PASO, TX – Texas state democrats are conducting a series of Town Halls regarding gun violence, and the first one is being hosted by the El Paso State Delegation. The delegation said in a statement that it is “[their] responsibility to keep our communities and schools safe from such devastating tragedies,” such as the
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EL PASO, TX – Multiple operations conducted by the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Department of Homeland Security have brought home 70 missing children. DPS and HSI (Homeland Security Investigations) announced on May 25, Missing Children’s Day, that 3 operations ran from the end of April through mid-May in El Paso, Midland, Ector
Continue Reading By Hannah Rabinowitz and Katelyn Polantz, CNN The Justice Department on Monday charged the head of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, and four other leaders with seditious conspiracy in the January 6 US Capitol attack, escalating the criminal case against the far-right extremist group. These are the most aggressive charges brought by the Justice Department
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CIUDAD JUAREZ – A party turned deadly in Juarez this weekend after a group of assassins killed 5 people. Officials say that sicarios targeted family members of an alleged criminal leader who was found dead in his prison cell last week. 77 shots were fired in total, and four men and one woman were hit
Continue Reading By Brad Parks The upcoming state trial for former Minneapolis police officers Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng for their alleged role in George Floyd’s killing has been moved to January 2023, Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill ruled Monday. Jury selection in the trial for Thao and Kueng, charged with aiding and abetting second-degree unintentional
Continue Reading By Nimi Princewill and Amy Cassidy, CNN A church in southwestern Nigeria became the site of a bloody attack on Sunday, according to local lawmakers. Attackers stormed into the church in the city of Owo and began “shooting sporadically,” Adeyemi Olayemi, the legislator representing the Owo constituency in the Ondo State House of Assembly, told
Continue Reading By Tina Burnside, CNN Three people were killed and at least 14 others were injured after gunshots rang out in Chattanooga, Tennessee, early Sunday, with some victims struck by bullets and others by fleeing vehicles, according to local police. Police responded to reports of a shooting at a nightclub just before 2:45 a.m., Jeremy Eames,
Continue Reading By Andy Rose, Holly Yan, Samantha Beech and Emma Tucker, CNN A bustling entertainment district turned into a scene of carnage when multiple shooters opened fire in the South Street area of Philadelphia, killing at least three people and wounding 11 others, police said. Officers patrolling the South Street area heard gunfire and observed “several
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Jacklyn Cazares’ father used to tell the 9-year-old who loved making TikTok videos with her friends not to be loud in the house. Now, he wishes he could hear her voice filling their home again after she was killed by a gunman at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, last month.
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UPDATE, 6:15 p.m.: The spokesman for University Medical Center called back to state that there were five victims recovering, not six, as previously mentioned. UPDATE 4 p.m.: A spokesperson from the University Medical Center of El Paso (UMC) confirmed one victim was transferred from Del Sol Medical Center to UMC earlier today. A total of
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN A traveler arrived in Charlotte, North Carolina with a motorized wheelchair and a secret cargo hidden in its cushions: 23 pounds of cocaine. The passenger arrived Tuesday at Charlotte Douglas International Airport from the Dominican Republic, according to a news release from US Customs and Border Protection (CBP). CBP officers examined
Continue Reading By Chuck Johnston, CNN At least three people were shot early Saturday when a suspect opened fire from a U-Haul truck on a parking lot outside a Houston nightclub, police said. A woman and two men were transported from the scene on Cullen Boulevard in the city’s south side after the shooting after 4 a.m.,
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EL PASO, Texas — Last night President Biden called on Congress to pass stricter gun laws. The stricter laws include an assault weapons ban and raising the age limit for firearm purchases. “If we can’t ban assault weapons then we should raise the age to purchase them from 18 to 21,” President Biden said. A
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EL PASO, Texas – The author of a Los Angeles Blade article reports an El Paso Transgender teen he said was assaulted at an El Paso library is “okay and becoming even more okay.” On Thursday night, El Paso Police sent a news release asking for information on the teen, named Tracey. Police disputed a
Continue Reading EL PASO, TX – Prosecutors have provided a glimpse into what happened that fateful Saturday night of July 13, 2019, the date that Erika Gaytan was seen for the last time. Marquez is accused of killing Erika Gaytan after they attended a concert together on July 13, 2019. Her body has never been found. Marquez’s
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EL PASO, Texas – A man arrested on I-10 Wednesday had threatened to commit murder and robbery after failing to get unemployment benefits, according to documents obtained by ABC-7. Cesar Omar Hita, 47, was arrested after Texas Department of Public Safety Special Agents, Highway Patrol, and Homeland Security Investigations worked together to stop him in
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UVALDE — Everyone in town is waiting to hear from Pete Arredondo. As chief of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Department, it was his call to wait more than an hour for backup instead of ordering officers on scene to immediately charge the shooter who killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb
Continue Reading By Whitney Wild The US Capitol Police on Friday charged a retired New York police officer with unlawful possession of high-capacity magazines and unregistered ammunition, according to the agency. Officers arrested Jerome Felipe of Michigan around 5 a.m. ET Friday, the agency said. Felipe had parked his 2017 Dodge Charger near the Capitol and allowed
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Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan on Friday announced the creation of a legislative committee to investigate the Uvalde shooting. “The fact we still do not have an accurate picture of what exactly happened in Uvalde is an outrage,” the Beaumont Republican said in a statement announcing the committee. “Every day, we receive new information that
Continue Reading By Jay Croft, CNN Two college students were shot to death Thursday evening in a church parking lot in Ames, Iowa, police said, before the shooter fatally turned his gun on himself. The shooting at the Cornerstone Church was the result of a “domestic situation” between the shooter, a 33-year-old man from the city of
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EL PASO, Texas – El Paso police are seeking information about a transgender teen named “Tracey” after they were contacted about a report she was assaulted outside an El Paso Library. The assault was reported on May 25 in the Los Angeles Blade. According to the article, four men approached Tracey, 17, outside an El
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