{"id":248502,"date":"2026-04-14T02:23:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T02:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/248502\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T02:23:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T02:23:20","slug":"police-investigating-shots-fired-call-at-east-el-paso-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/248502\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating \u2018shots fired\u2019 call at East El Paso Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EL PASO, Texas (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:KTSM;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;KTSM&quot;}\" class=\"link \">KTSM<\/a>) \u2014 El Paso Police are investigating a shots fired call on Monday afternoon, April 13 at an East El Paso park in the Cielo Vista area, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said they are investigating an incident at Jim Crouch Park, formerly Ponder Park, at 7500 W.H. Burges Dr. No injuries have been reported and there is no imminent threat in the area, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A nearby high school was placed on lockdown amid the investigation. El Paso Independent School District officials told KTSM 9 News the lockdown was later lifted and placed under \u201chold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The LOCKDOWN protocol at Burges High School has been lifted and the campus has moved to a HOLD to help the campus smoothly transition to regular class schedules. Thank you for your trust and understanding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This park is the site of the City\u2019s Aug. 3 memorial to victims of the Cielo Vista Walmart shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/city-host-renaming-unveiling-jim-174301516.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:City to host renaming, unveiling of Jim Crouch Park;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;City to host renaming, unveiling of Jim Crouch Park&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> City to host renaming, unveiling of Jim Crouch Park <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said they are continuing their investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2014 El Paso Police are investigating a shots fired call on Monday afternoon, April&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[94423,20986,138,140,30614,139,1785,94424,498,94422],"class_list":["post-248502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-burges","tag-cielo-vista","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-independent-school-district","tag-el-paso-news","tag-el-paso-police","tag-jim-crouch-park","tag-ktsm","tag-ponder-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248502","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=248502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}