{"id":443304,"date":"2026-09-21T20:44:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T20:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/443304\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T20:44:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T20:44:24","slug":"police-block-residential-street-in-east-el-paso-on-monday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/443304\/","title":{"rendered":"Police block residential street in East El Paso on Monday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KTSM<\/a>) \u2013 A 32-year-old man was found dead inside a home in East El Paso, and a person believed to have been the shooter was taken into custody in East El Paso County. <\/p>\n<p>El Paso Police Sergeant Javier Sambrano said officers responded to a 911 call reporting an assault and shooting at about 6:20 a.m. When officers arrived, they found a 32-year-old Hispanic man who was deceased.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators determined during the preliminary investigation that the incident appeared to be family-related, Sambrano said.<\/p>\n<p>Several police vehicles were seen blocking blocking Charlie Smith Drive near McAuliffe Drive on Monday morning, September 21. Around 10 a.m. the police department\u2019s mobile command unit was at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The person believed to be involved in the shooting was taken into custody in El Paso County with assistance from the Texas Department of Public Safety and other law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n<p>KTSM asked Sambrano whether an eastbound police pursuit on Interstate 10 was connected to the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know DPS did assist, so I don\u2019t know if there was or wasn\u2019t a pursuit. But I know that the subject was taken into custody in El Paso County,\u201d Sambrano said.<\/p>\n<p>KTSM viewers reported seeing a driver involved in a police pursuit crash on Maravillas Street in Horizon City. <\/p>\n<p>Horizon City police told KTSM confirmed that there is a police presence in the area of Maravillas Street and Desierto Bueno. According to them, it\u2019s related to a police pursuit that originated in the El Paso area.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/snapshot-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3156281\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sambrano said investigators were still working to determine whether the pursuit was connected to the shooting. If a connection is confirmed, he said, the department will provide additional information to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The department\u2019s Crimes Against Persons Unit and Criminalistics Unit were at the scene Monday morning collecting evidence as the investigation continued.<\/p>\n<p>The 1700 block of Charlie Smith Drive remains closed as police investigators conduct their investigation. .<\/p>\n<p>Police did not release additional details about the circumstances leading up to the shooting or identified the victim or person taken into custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2013 A 32-year-old man was found dead inside a home in East El Paso,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-443304","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\/443304","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=443304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}