CNN, WJLA, WUSA By Jamie Crawford, Mike Valerio and Paul P. Murphy, CNN The suspect in a shooting in northwest Washington, DC, that left four people wounded on Friday afternoon has died, DC Metropolitan Police Department Chief Robert Contee said. “The suspect that we believe is responsible for this is now deceased,” said Contee, who
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN A game warden and his K9 colleague discovered almost 381 whole shark fins and 29.2 pounds of frozen shark fins at a seafood restaurant in San Antonio, Texas. Kevin Winters, one of two Texas Game Wardens who discovered the illegal fins on April 13, told CNN that the case has not
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Las Cruces police released a pre-produced video explaining the moments that led up to an officer shooting a 75-year-old woman Saturday. The video shows Amelia Baca’s confrontation with an officer. In one still image taken from the officer’s body camera, she’s shown holding what appears to be two knives: one
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UPDATE (4/25): Officials from the Ysleta Independent School District confirmed the stabbing victim was a Riverside High School student. However, officials did not identify the student. Officials say grief counselors will be made available to those students who need them. UPDATE: El Paso police say a 15-year-old boy died after being stabbed in the lower
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso police are investigating a stabbing that sent one person to the hospital early Friday morning. It happened just after midnight on Alameda Ave and Evergreen. Emergency dispatchers tell ABC-7 the stabbing victim was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. It’s unclear what led up to the stabbing.
Continue Reading Three people were shot Friday afternoon in northwest Washington, DC, and authorities are responding to an “active threat” in the area. The Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department said the incident took place on the 4100 block of Connecticut Avenue and “there is a large police presence in the area.” Police say two adults were shot; both are in critical
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess and Andy Rose, CNN The family of a 24-year-old woman last seen in Houston on April 15, is pleading for help in finding her after her bloody cell phone was discovered near a park in West Houston following her disappearance. According to community activist Quanell X, who is the leader of the
Continue Reading By Nathan Hodge, Julia Presniakova, Katie Polglase, Jennifer Hauser, Hira Humayun and Julia Hollingsworth, CNN Ukrainian officials say they have identified mass graves outside the city of Mariupol, which they say adds to mounting proof of Russian war crimes against Ukrainian civilians. The claim is supported by photos collected and analyzed by US satellite imagery
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EL PASO, Texas – A boy was seriously injured after being attacked by three aggressive dogs in far east El Paso. The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office arrested 29-year-old, Jose Lopez, saying he was responsible. Lopez was booked into the El Paso County jail on a $100,000 bond and charged with attack by dog. He
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UPDATE 5:50 p.m.: Associated Press: Texas executes oldest death row inmate who was convicted of fatally shooting Houston officer during 1990 traffic stop. Texas is preparing to execute Carl Buntion on Thursday evening for the 1990 murder of a Houston police officer. At 78, he would be the oldest prisoner executed in the state in
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CNN — Two men indicted alongside former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to defrauding donors of hundreds of thousands of dollars in a border wall scheme.Brian Kolfage and Andrew Badolato each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Kolfage also pleaded guilty to two counts
Continue Reading Police officers in Santa Ana, California were playing copyrighted music at night to prevent a bystander who was filming their investigation from posting it online. Watch as a city councilman who lived down the street stepped outside to intervene.
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EL PASO, Texas – A man arrested by SWAT members Wednesday faces child exploitation charges in federal court. Video of the arrest was provided to ABC-7 by a reliable source of Marcus Derrick Broadnax being taken into custody by an interagency child exploitation task force. Broadnax was charged in federal court today for having and
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess, CNN A federal judge in Illinois on Monday ruled that the US Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has to immediately find a qualified surgeon so that a transgender prisoner, Cristina Nichole Iglesias, can receive gender-affirming surgery, court documents show. Earlier in the case, the district court had ordered the BOP to evaluate Iglesias
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EL PASO, Texas – Investigators have recovered a video showing the moment a woman was shot by her boyfriend as she was recording him. According to court documents obtained by ABC-7, Efrain Orozco told investigators he thought the .45 caliber handgun he had been using for target practice in the desert was unloaded. He said
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By Evan Perez, CNN Justice Correspondent Federal prosecutors on Wednesday announced charges against 21 people for allegedly seeking to defraud government health care programs of $149 million in a variety of pandemic-related scams, including selling fake Covid-19 vaccination cards and submitting claims for unnecessary medical tests. The charges brought in nine separate federal court cases
Continue Reading California police have arrested the person they say set fire to a Home Depot earlier this month.
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EL PASO, Texas – A set of bloody fingerprints linked a 19-year-old to the murder of a 57-year-old man on April 6, according to court documents obtained by ABC-7. The documents state 19-year-old Juan Pablo Gil admitted to stabbing Samuel Ortiz Lozano multiple times. Gil also admitted striking Lozano with his fists, strangling him with
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EL PASO, Texas – A 21-year-old woman died Monday from injuries she sustained after being shot on April 10. The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office identified the victim as Karina Isabel Tobias. Sheriff’s Deputies were called out to the Hospital of Providence East Campus, TX after being alert to Tobias’s injuries. An investigation led to
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Editor’s Note: The date of the crash has been updated from the original story due to an error. DOÑA ANA COUNTY, New Mexico – New Mexico State Police say an SUV driven by 28-year-old Victor Mendoza was traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes of I-10 Friday when he crashed head-on into a pick-up driven by
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UPDATE 9:10 p.m.: El Paso police have release a photo of a man they say robbed the El Paso Wells Fargo bank on 221 N. Kansas Street. Police say the man entered the bank and demanded money. The man left the bank walking west on Texas Street towards Mesa. The man is described as heavy
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EL PASO, Texas – Police say a jammed gun helped avert shooting injuries after a 22-year-old man pulled out the weapon during a large fight Sunday in front of the College Dropout Bar in the Cincinnati Entertainment District. Police say 16 officers were assigned to Cincinnati District that night. Around 1:40 a.m., a crowd gathered
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Las Cruces Police are looking for two men in connection with a shooting early Sunday morning. Officers responded to the 1400 block of Solano Dr. near a Dollar General store. Once on scene, they found a man with gun wounds to his lower body. Hours later, officials named Jerimiah Javi Parra Baca, 22 and Juan
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SANTA TERESA, New Mexico — A three-year-old boy was found abandoned in Santa Teresa on Friday. According to the Customs and Border Protection, a group of migrants was spotted by Santa Teresa Border Patrol Station camera operators on April 15. A Mobile Response Team went out and encountered the boy who is from Guatemala. Agents
Continue Reading By Laura Studley, CNN Two people are in critical condition after a shooting early Sunday in Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood, police said. Police responded around 2:30 a.m. to reports of multiple people shot, Boston Police Department Superintendent-in-Chief Chief Greg Long confirmed in a news briefing. Three suspects were taken into custody after the vehicle they were
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker, CNN US Customs and Border Protection officers in California have discovered more than 400 pounds of methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin concealed in toolboxes that were being transported to the United States. Federal officers working at the Tecate Port of Entry on April 1 encountered a 56-year-old male driver of a 2006 Toyota
Continue Reading By Cheri Mossburg, CNN A shoe store owner aiming at would-be shoplifters opened fire in a California mall but struck a 9-year-old girl waiting in line to see the Easter Bunny, police said. The child was flown to Loma Linda Medical Center after the April 12 shooting in the Mall of Victor Valley and had
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EL PASO, Texas – Five men were arrested Tuesday in what police are calling a city-wide operation spanning multiple days. Investigators say 30-year-old Gary Lawrence, a security officer at Jaguars nightclub, was assaulted by five men as he was escorting people out of the club on March 19. Police say the offenders stole his wallet
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EL PASO, Texas – When we think of first responders, many of us think of police, firefighters, and paramedics. But what about those who work behind the scenes to ensure we are safe and remain calm in an emergency? Those are the 911 dispatchers – the first responders we don’t see but rely on. This
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UPDATE (4/15): El Paso police say the body of a man found in a home on the 1800 block of Montana was 57-year-old Samuel Ortiz Lozano. Police also announced the arrest of 19-year-old Juan Pablo Gil. Gil is charged with capital murder and is being held on a $1,250,000 bond. Police say Gil was driving
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