El Paso police detectives are investigating the death of a 29-year-old man at an apartment in the Angel’s Triangle neighborhood of the Northeast, an El Paso Police Department spokesperson said.
The man was found dead about 2:30 p.m. when police were dispatched to check on his well-being on Saint Patrick’s Day on Tuesday, March 17, inside an apartment in the 8700 block of Lawson Street near Sunrise Avenue, Detective Judy Oviedo, a police spokesperson, said at the scene.
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Detectives with the Crimes Against Persons Unit were “called to the scene and they are currently investigating the death as suspicious in nature,” Oviedo said as the sun set Tuesday, March 17, on a residential street blocked by yellow crime-scene tape.
An El Paso police officer stands guard as detectives with the Crimes Against Persons Unit investigate a man’s death in an apartment in the 8700 block of Lawson Street in the “Angel’s Triangle” of Northeast El Paso on Tuesday, March 17, 2026.
The police mobile command vehicle was parked on the street, filled with homes and small apartment buildings. The man’s identity had not been released. Detectives and crime-scene investigators were at the scene.
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Oviedo added that it was early in the investigation and detectives had not publicly disclosed what made the death “suspicious.”
The investigation was in the heart of the triangle-shaped neighborhood bounded by the U.S. 54 Patriot Freeway, Dyer Street and Hondo Pass Avenue, which, about 40 years ago, was nicknamed the “Devil’s Triangle” for its notorious poverty, crime and gang activity. Residents changed the community’s name to the “Angel’s Triangle” as neighborhood improvement efforts took root in the 1990s.
Anyone with information on the death investigation on Lawson Street may anonymously call Crime Stoppers of El Paso at 915-566-8477 (TIPS).
Daniel Borunda may be reached at dborunda@elpasotimes.com and @BorundaDaniel on X.
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