{"id":296497,"date":"2026-05-16T22:34:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/296497\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T22:34:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:34:36","slug":"police-el-paso-zoo-evacuated-out-of-abundance-of-caution-after-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/296497\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: El Paso Zoo evacuated \u2018out of abundance of caution\u2019 after threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Note: Video courtesy of FitFam<\/p>\n<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=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:KTSM;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 The El Paso Zoo and Botanical Gardens in South-Central El Paso have been evacuated on Saturday afternoon, May 16, El Paso Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police are at the zoo, at 4001 E. Paisano, to investigate a reported threat. Zoo patrons were evacuated at of an abundance of caution, police said. The call came in at about 1:45 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Photos by Edith Montero\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"899\" height=\"674\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/9012ebb6ee9901696261eab73273074d.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photos by Edith Montero<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"899\" height=\"674\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/14f41ae999692b6a27f0236dcdab5f4e.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">We will update this story when we learn more.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.;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":"Note: Video courtesy of FitFam EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2014 The El Paso Zoo and Botanical Gardens in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[107994,63085,138,140,139,1785,31765,498,107993,4604,27],"class_list":["post-296497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-abundance-of-caution","tag-botanical-gardens","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-el-paso-police","tag-el-paso-zoo","tag-ktsm","tag-reported-threat","tag-south-central-el-paso","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296497","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=296497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}