{"id":192432,"date":"2026-03-05T23:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/192432\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T23:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:25:07","slug":"police-id-dead-suspect-and-reveal-ties-with-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/192432\/","title":{"rendered":"Police ID dead suspect and reveal ties with victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Police released the identity of the man they say shot and killed himself in Far East El Paso, following a shooting that also injured a woman after a family violence call on Wednesday morning. <\/p>\n<p>According to the El Paso Police Department, at around 5:25 a.m., officers found the body of 37-year-old Andres Cervantes, who they believe shot himself, and also a 28-year-old woman&#8211; Cervantes&#8217;s sister-in-law&#8211;  also shot but still alive. <\/p>\n<p>This after police were called to the 14300 block of Armando Silva Drive, near Frank Castillo Park.<\/p>\n<p>Police also said there was a 7-year-old boy in the home at the time of the shooting; however, he was not injured. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/developing-police-investigate-aggravated-assault-in-far-east-el-paso-texas-tx?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Man found dead of self-inflicted wound, woman hospitalized after far east El Paso shooting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>EPPD said officers helped the woman out after finding her and, while waiting for the ambulance to arrive and rush her to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Her condition on Thursday afternoon is not known, but police described her injuries as serious.   <\/p>\n<p>Motives and what led up to the circumstances remained unclear as the investigation continued.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives with EPPD&#8217;s Crimes Against Persons unit are investigating the shooting. <\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/crime-news\/i-10-east-closed-near-van-horn-after-crash-possible-shooting-texas-tx?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Suspect killed after gunfight on I-10 near Sierra Blanca Border Patrol checkpoint<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.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 released the identity of the man they say shot and killed himself&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-192432","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\/192432","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=192432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}