{"id":334866,"date":"2026-06-13T10:42:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T10:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/334866\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T10:42:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T10:42:23","slug":"central-el-paso-man-arrested-on-murder-charge-after-victim-dies-from-may-assault-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/334866\/","title":{"rendered":"Central El Paso man arrested on murder charge after victim dies from May assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A 25-year-old Central El Paso man has been arrested on a murder charge after police said a man who was assaulted in May later died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>According to the El Paso Police Department, Stefon Anthony Bonito was arrested and charged with murder in the death of 47-year-old Alberto Bustamante, a Central El Paso resident, who died after an assault that occurred on May 18 at 6615 Alameda. <\/p>\n<p>Police said on June 6, the Crimes Against Persons unit was contacted by the Medical Examiner\u2019s Office and advised that Bustamante had died from the May 18 assault, which led investigators to begin an investigation into Bonito. <\/p>\n<p>The initial assault investigation found that Bustamante, who was located at his residence with head injuries, where police said they determined Bonito was involved in the assault.<\/p>\n<p>On June 9, police said they located Bonito, arrested him, and booked him into the El Paso County Detention Facility without incident. <\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/murder-charge-dismissed-against-el-paso-man-after-grand-jury-declines-indictment?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Murder charge dismissed against El Paso man after grand jury declines indictment<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.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 A 25-year-old Central El Paso man has been arrested on a murder charge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-334866","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\/334866","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=334866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}