{"id":197594,"date":"2026-03-10T02:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T02:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/197594\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T02:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T02:23:07","slug":"authorities-urge-public-to-avoid-horizon-city-neighborhood-area-amid-heavy-police-presence-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/197594\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities urge public to avoid Horizon City neighborhood area amid heavy police presence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HORIZON CITY, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Police have secured a Horizon City neighborhood after they had previously asked people to stay away from the area amid heavy police presence.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the Horizon City Police Department posted on social media that officers are responding to the 14000 block of Sand Gate Drive, asking people to avoid the area. <\/p>\n<p>Hours later, HCPD updated its post saying,  &#8220;Scene is secure, no residents or members of the public were in danger at anytime. Officers remain at the scene continuing to investigate. Thank you for your patience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear what happened as information remains limited. <\/p>\n<p>Video from the area was shared on the popular social media account <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DVrAtwiEWs6\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@therealfitfamelpaso<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In it, you can see several HCPD and El Paso County Sheriff units in the area and officers with their weapons drawn.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p><p>Heavy police presence in Horizon City. March 9, 2026. Credit: FitFam<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story; check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Heavy police presence in Horizon City. March 9, 2026. Credit: FitFam\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/resources\/media2\/16x9\/600\/986\/0x232\/90\/32b98b38-00ad-4b06-baec-b11eaca6031d-Image3.jfif\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Heavy police presence in Horizon City. March 9, 2026. Credit: FitFam<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/el-paso-police-arrest-man-on-murder-charge-in-19-year-olds-death-on-green-valley?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso police arrest man on murder charge in 19-year-old&#8217;s death on Green Valley<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/viral-video-of-dog-stoning-with-landscaping-rocks-led-to-18-month-prison-sentence?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Viral video of dog stoning with landscaping rocks led to 18-month prison sentence<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (2)<\/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<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HORIZON CITY, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Police have secured a Horizon City neighborhood after they had previously asked people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-197594","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\/197594","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=197594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}