Update: El Paso Police Identify City’s 9th Murder Victim
Update: El Paso Police have identified the man who was found dead Thursday morning as Juan Jose Esquivel, 33, of the 9800 block of Isaac in El Paso.
Previous Story: El Paso Police are investigating the ninth murder of the year.
At about 6:40 a.m. a man was found dead along an irrigation ditch near the 350 block of N. Nevarez.
Police Crimes Against Persons investigators identified the deceased as a Hispanic male in his 30s.
This is the ninth murder of 2011 as compared to one during this same time period in 2010.
Anybody with information regarding this case is asked to call the El Paso Police Department at 832-4400 or to remain anonymous call Crime Stoppers at 566-8477.
