Mugshot released of El Paso officer charged in shooting of assault suspect

UPDATE, March 15: Police released the mugshot Monday of an El Paso officer charged in a shooting that wounded an assault suspect outside a downtown bar.

34-year-old Officer Anthony Greer, who police said last week was relieved of his duties, has been accused of using unjustified force in the wounding of 33-year-old Eduardo Daniel Reyes.

UPDATE, March 12: An El Paso police officer who shot and wounded an Arizona assault suspect outside a downtown bar in January has been arrested and charged with unreasonable use of deadly force.

In a statement late Friday, the El Paso Police Department said Officer Anthony Greer was relieved of his duties after an investigation by Texas Rangers determined that Eduardo Daniel Reyes "did not present a threat of serious bodily injury or death to the officer; as such, the officer’s use of deadly force was deemed unreasonable."

A mugshot of Greer had not yet been released by police, although authorities said they planned to release it after the officer is booked at the county jail.

Reyes was formally charged earlier in the week with two counts of aggravated assault for an incident that police responded to when the shooting occurred. Authorities have previously said Reyes was armed with a gun.

UPDATE, March 11: Over a month after being shot by an El Paso police officer, an Arizona man suspected in an armed assault outside a downtown bar has been released from the hospital and booked into jail, authorities said Thursday.

Eduardo Daniel Reyes was released from University Medical Center on Wednesday, following treatment for a gunshot wound. Police said he was booked into the El Paso County Detention Facility on 2 counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

The 33-year-old Reyes is being held on $50,000 bond stemming from the late January incident in front of the TAP Bar at 408 E. San Antonio.

UPDATE, Feb. 1: El Paso police on Monday identified an Arizona man as the assault suspect shot and wounded by an officer outside a downtown bar.

A police incident report provided to the media said 31-year-old Eduardo D. Reyes had a gun when he was shot by an officer who responded to the assault call late Saturday night at TAP Bar at 408 E. San Antonio.

Reyes remained hospitalized in critical but stable condition with a gunshot wound.

ORIGINAL REPORT, Jan. 31: EL PASO, Texas — A bicycle police officer shot and critically wounded an armed assault suspect in downtown El Paso late Saturday night, authorities said.

The shooting unfolded about 11 p.m. along the sidewalk in front of 408 E. San Antonio.

A police spokesman said two bike officers responding to a reported assault confronted a 33-year-old man suspected in the crime when he pulled out a weapon and refused to put it down.

That's when one of the officers fired a shot that struck the man, police said.

He was taken to University Medical Center, where he was hospitalized in critical but stable condition with a gunshot wound.

Police said no officers were injured in the incident; the officer who shot the man has been with the department for three years.

EPPD detectives from the Crimes Against Persons and Internal Affairs units spent hours examining the cordoned off scene, which took up about a half block.

The Texas Rangers were also called in to investigate, which is standard procedure in cases of officer-involved shootings.

This was the third such police shooting this month in El Paso.

One of those two shootings earlier in January turned deadly when police killed a man who was threatening to shoot motorists along Interstate 10 in west El Paso.

According to a database maintained by the Texas Attorney General's Office, the El Paso Police Department reported a total of just four officer-involved shootings for all of last year.