{"id":63480,"date":"2025-11-24T22:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/63480\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T22:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:52:11","slug":"man-arrested-in-connection-with-west-el-paso-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/63480\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested in connection with West El Paso shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 The El Paso Police Department arrested a 60-year-old man in connection with Sunday&#8217;s shooting that left one person injured on the 200 block of Lombardy. <\/p>\n<p>According to the El Paso police, Kevin Carl Welch was arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred in the early morning hours of Sunday, approximately 5:30 a.m., when police responded to reports of a shooting at the 200 block of Lombardy. <\/p>\n<p>When police arrived, they located a 59-year-old male victim who had been shot multiple times. He was then transported to a local hospital for treatment <\/p>\n<p>The Crimes Against Persons Unit, which took over the investigation of the shooting, then identified Welch as the shooter. <\/p>\n<p>According to police, Welch was then located and placed into custody.<\/p>\n<p>He was booked into the El Paso County Detention Facility with a $750,000 bond and is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators are continuing to investigate the case and are urging anyone with information to contact police at the non-emergency number of 915-832-4400 or to remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers of El Paso at 915-566-TIPS (8477)<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/police-investigate-early-morning-shooting-in-central-el-paso?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Police investigate early morning shooting in West El Paso<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.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 The El Paso Police Department arrested a 60-year-old man in connection with Sunday&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-63480","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\/63480","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=63480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}