{"id":188060,"date":"2026-03-03T07:25:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/188060\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T07:25:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:25:31","slug":"masked-man-robs-circle-k-store-at-gunpoint-in-northeast-el-paso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/188060\/","title":{"rendered":"Masked man robs Circle K store at gunpoint in Northeast El Paso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">El Paso police investigators seek to identify a masked man armed with a handgun who robbed a Circle K store at gunpoint in the Northeast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The armed robbery occurred on Feb. 8 at the Circle K store at 10567 Rushing Road at the corner of Salem Drive next to Veterans Park, Crime Stoppers of El Paso said. The unsolved case is the Crime of the Week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">More El Paso news: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/fort-bliss-traffic-delays-amid-180014614.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Fort Bliss on alert due to Iran war, gate traffic causes &#039;abnormal congestion&#039;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Bliss on alert due to Iran war, gate traffic causes &#8216;abnormal congestion&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At 12:56 a.m., a customer was at the store counter when a man in a black balaclava ski mask walked in with a handgun, which he pointed at the clerk and the customer, Crime Stoppers said.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A security camera image shows an unidentified masked man entering during an armed robbery of the Circle K on Rushing Road next to Veterans Park in Northeast El Paso on Feb. 8, 2026.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"1628\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0af5ce3e5aaaced998956bfea4443f10.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A security camera image shows an unidentified masked man entering during an armed robbery of the Circle K on Rushing Road next to Veterans Park in Northeast El Paso on Feb. 8, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man demand money from the cashier, stole an undisclosed amount of cash and was last seen walking out of the store heading south toward Trojan Drive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Crime: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/el-paso-angel-stops-teen-213036078.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:&#039;Angel&#039; stops teen allegedly robbing 85-year-old woman;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Angel&#8217; stops teen allegedly robbing 85-year-old woman<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A security camera image shows an unidentified masked man pointing a handgun during an armed robbery of the Circle K store, 10567 Rushing Road, next to Veterans Park in Northeast El Paso on Feb. 8, 2026.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"429\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/e4c1582aa9e64eac460b0257202d0f28.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A security camera image shows an unidentified masked man pointing a handgun during an armed robbery of the Circle K store, 10567 Rushing Road, next to Veterans Park in Northeast El Paso on Feb. 8, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The robber was about 5 feet 8 inches tall with an average build and was in his mid-20s to early 30s. He was a wearing a black balaclava mask, a black hooded sweatshirt and a black hooded jacket, navy blue Aeropostale 1987 running pants and black Nike Air Force 1 sneakers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information on the robbery may anonymously call Crime Stoppers of El Paso\u00a0at 915-566-8477 (TIPS) or leave a tip online at <a href=\"https:\/\/cselpaso.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:cselpaso.org;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">cselpaso.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Daniel Borunda may be reached at dborunda@elpasotimes.com and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BorundaDaniel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@BorundaDaniel;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">@BorundaDaniel<\/a>\u00a0on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on El Paso Times: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elpasotimes.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2026\/03\/02\/el-paso-armed-robbery-circle-k-store-on-rushing-in-northeast\/88949062007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Masked man robs Circle K store at gunpoint in Northeast El Paso;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Masked man robs Circle K store at gunpoint in Northeast El Paso<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"El Paso police investigators seek to identify a masked man armed with a handgun who robbed a Circle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2239,74974,4223,138,140,139,1785],"class_list":{"0":"post-188060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-armed-robbery","9":"tag-circle-k","10":"tag-crime-stoppers","11":"tag-el-paso","12":"tag-el-paso-headlines","13":"tag-el-paso-news","14":"tag-el-paso-police"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188060","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=188060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}