{"id":281953,"date":"2026-05-06T23:02:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/281953\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T23:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:02:06","slug":"police-ask-public-to-avoid-segundo-barrio-as-suspect-barricades-in-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/281953\/","title":{"rendered":"Police ask public to avoid Segundo Barrio as suspect barricades in business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso police are asking the public to avoid an area in the Segundo Barrio on Wednesday afternoon as an armed suspect has barricaded himself inside a business. <\/p>\n<p>According to the El Paso Police Department, traffic has been closed at the 900 block of South Stanton Street, near Mata&#8217;s Fruit Store (at the intersection of E. 7th Avenue), as a suspect has secured himself inside the business, and police say a &#8220;weapon is involved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Information is limited at the moment as this is a developing situation, but EPPD said the emergency call originally came in as an aggravated robbery in progress at around 3:49 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story; check back for updates. <\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/crash-involves-bicyclist-in-east-el-paso-police-report-serious-injuries?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Crash involves bicyclist in east El Paso; police report serious injuries<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/arson-suspect-with-prior-convictions-arrested-after-fires-in-nmsu-campus-in-las-cruces-new-mexico-nm-state-university-south-espina-north-horseshoe-police-pd-pete-domenici-hall?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arson suspect with prior convictions arrested after fires in NMSU campus in Las Cruces<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/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 El Paso police are asking the public to avoid an area in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-281953","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\/281953","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=281953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}