{"id":434143,"date":"2026-09-12T19:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T19:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/434143\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T19:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T19:46:17","slug":"police-investigating-fatal-tom-lea-park-shooting-in-central-el-paso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/434143\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating fatal Tom Lea Park shooting in Central El Paso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two people were killed in an early-morning shooting at Tom Lea Upper Park in Central El Paso, a police spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:El Paso police;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elpasotimes.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2026\/09\/11\/dwi-el-paso-safety-new-strategy-to-stop-drunk-driving-crashes-meeting\/91585736007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">El Paso police<\/a> officers were called to the park at 900 E. Rim Road shortly before 4 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, according to the El Paso Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;At this time, the information that we have is that there was a group of people at the park when an unidentified vehicle showed up and two individuals began shooting,&#8221; police spokesman Officer Adrian Cisneros said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two people died at the scene, Cisneros said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tom Lea Upper Park sits along Rim Road near the city&#8217;s scenic overlook and is a popular spot for visitors for its views of the Borderland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The shooting is under investigation by homicide detectives with the Crimes Against Persons Unit. No arrests had been announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information on the Tom Lea Park shooting may call the police nonemergency number at 915-832-4400 or may anonymously call\u00a0<a data-ylk=\"slk:Crime Stoppers of El Paso;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/cselpaso.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Crime Stoppers of El Paso<\/a>\u00a0at 915-566-8477 (TIPS).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This story may be updated as more details are released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Natassia Paloma may be reached at\u00a0<a data-ylk=\"slk:npaloma@gannett.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/mailto:npaloma@gannett.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">npaloma@gannett.com<\/a>, @NatassiaPaloma on X, natassia_paloma on Instagram, and Natassia Paloma on Facebook. Reporter Daniel Borunda contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">More: <a data-ylk=\"slk:Gov. Greg Abbott, Gina Hinojosa argue gender politics in governor race;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elpasotimes.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2026\/09\/11\/abbott-hinojosa-spar-over-gender-politics-in-texas-governor-race-gina-hinojosa-greg-abbott\/91672418007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Gov. Greg Abbott, Gina Hinojosa argue gender politics in governor race<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on El Paso Times: <a data-ylk=\"slk:Police investigating fatal Tom Lea Park shooting in Central El Paso;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elpasotimes.com\/story\/news\/2026\/09\/12\/police-investigating-shooting-at-tom-lea-park-in-west-el-paso\/91729623007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Police investigating fatal Tom Lea Park shooting in Central El Paso<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people were killed in an early-morning shooting at Tom Lea Upper Park in Central El Paso, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2269,22820,138,140,139,2263,19149],"class_list":["post-434143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-adrian-cisneros","tag-central-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-el-paso-police-department","tag-police-spokesman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434143","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=434143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}