{"id":425877,"date":"2026-09-04T07:48:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T07:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/425877\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T07:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T07:48:23","slug":"2nd-teen-charged-with-murder-in-el-paso-county-fatal-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/425877\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd teen charged with murder in El Paso County fatal shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CIMARRON HILLS, Colo. (Scripps News Group) \u2014 A second teenager faces a murder charge in connection with a fatal shooting in unincorporated El Paso County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">El Paso County deputies say 19-year-old Simon Botros is allegedly connected to the shooting that left 39-year-old Michael Fell dead in the Cimarron Hills area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Botros was already in jail on an unrelated robbery charge at the time of his arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputies arrested 18-year-old Damonte Linwood a few days after the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Both teens now face second-degree murder and robbery charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The shooting took place around 1 a.m. on July 7 along Reed Grass Way, which is located near the intersection of Marksheffel Road and Constitution Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office, the call came in to deputies that early morning about reports of a shooting in the area. When deputies arrived, they found one person, later identified as Fell, suffering from a gunshot wound that would kill him. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anyone with information or security video from the area during the time of the shooting is asked to call the sheriff\u2019s office at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kktv.com\/2026\/09\/04\/second-teenager-charged-with-murder-fatal-el-paso-county-shooting-that-killed-michael-fell\/tel:+1(719)390-5555\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(719)390-5555<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Scripps News Group. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CIMARRON HILLS, Colo. (Scripps News Group) \u2014 A second teenager faces a murder charge in connection with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[148070,148068,138,19359,132452,140,139,148069,148072,148067,148071],"class_list":["post-425877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-cimarron-hills-shooting","tag-damonte-linwood","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-county-sheriff","tag-el-paso-county-shooting","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-michael-fell","tag-second-degree-murder","tag-simon-botros","tag-unincorporated-el-paso-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425877","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=425877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}