{"id":172312,"date":"2026-02-20T02:43:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T02:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/172312\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T02:43:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T02:43:37","slug":"suspicious-deaths-in-central-el-paso-now-ruled-murder-suicide-involving-mother-and-son-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/172312\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspicious deaths in Central El Paso now ruled murder-suicide involving mother and son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Police said that what was first reported as a suspicious death in Central El Paso has now been ruled a murder-suicide involving a 91-year-old woman killing her son.  <\/p>\n<p>According to the El Paso Police Department, 91-year-old Ann Crawford Fritz shot and killed 68-year-old John Morgan Fritz before turning the gun on herself. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/police-investigate-suspicious-death-in-central-el-paso?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Police investigate suspicious death in Central El Paso, two individuals found in home<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Investigators said it happened on Monday, Feb. 9, at around 6:08 p.m. at a home on the 2400 block of Hawley Circle, near the Radford School.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation started after a neighbor called the police to check on them. <\/p>\n<p>Detectives with the Crimes Against Persons unit were called in to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/crime-news\/las-cruces-police-address-officer-involved-shooting-that-left-28-year-old-dead-new-mexico-nm-johnny-ray-morales-walmart-gunfight-shootout-gunfire-theft-south-valley-drive?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Las Cruces Police address officer-involved shooting that left 28-year-old dead<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Police said that what was first reported as a suspicious death in Central&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-172312","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\/172312","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=172312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}