{"id":297231,"date":"2026-05-17T17:26:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T17:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/297231\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T17:26:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T17:26:31","slug":"el-paso-zoo-to-remain-closed-sunday-day-after-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/297231\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso Zoo to remain closed Sunday day after threat"},"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=\"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 will be closed Sunday, May 17, the day after a threat forced its evacuation, the zoo said on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">El Paso Police investigated the threat and spent four hours searching the zoo on Saturday, but found nothing. The zoo reopened at about 6 p.m. Saturday for visitors to come and get their vehicles out of the parking lot. The parking lot stayed open till midnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/police-el-paso-zoo-evacuated-204619636.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:UPDATE: El Paso Zoo reopens after being evacuated;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;UPDATE&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> UPDATE: El Paso Zoo reopens after being evacuated <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The zoo said it will be closed on Sunday \u201cso the team can catch up after Saturday\u2019s distractions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe apologize for the inconvenience and we look forward to seeing you again soon,\u201d the post said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The zoo will reopen at 9 a.m. on Monday.<\/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":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2014 The El Paso Zoo and Botanical Gardens will be closed Sunday, May 17,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[63085,138,140,139,1785,31765],"class_list":["post-297231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-botanical-gardens","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-el-paso-police","tag-el-paso-zoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297231","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=297231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297231\/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=297231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}