{"id":168860,"date":"2026-02-18T00:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/168860\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T00:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:10:07","slug":"investigators-deem-suspicious-deaths-in-central-el-paso-as-murder-suicide-identify-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/168860\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigators deem suspicious deaths in Central El Paso as murder-suicide, identify bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8212; Investigators with the El Paso Police Department have determined that two bodies found in Central El Paso last week was the result of a murder-suicide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/news\/2026\/02\/09\/el-paso-police-department-responds-to-suspicious-death-in-central-el-paso\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">As ABC-7 reported, officers initially responded to the 2400 block of Hawley Circle near Fort Bliss in the afternoon of Monday, Feb. 9<\/a> after a neighbor called for a welfare check at the residence. <\/p>\n<p>According to a release sent Tuesday, police found two people shot dead inside, now identified as 91-year-old Ann Crawford Fritz and 68-year-old John Morgan Fritz. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators say they determined that Ann Fritz shot John Fritz then died from a self-inflicted gunshot.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are continuing to look into the circumstances of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION<\/p>\n<p>KVIA ABC 7 is committed to providing a forum for civil and constructive conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Please keep your comments respectful and relevant. You can review our Community Guidelines by <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/station\/2022\/07\/15\/community-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">clicking here <\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to share a story idea, please submit it <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8212; Investigators with the El Paso Police Department have determined that two bodies found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-168860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}