{"id":86116,"date":"2025-12-12T23:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T23:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/86116\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T23:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T23:14:12","slug":"police-arrest-suspect-in-south-central-el-paso-shooting-that-injured-22-year-old-man-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/86116\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest suspect in South Central El Paso shooting that injured 22-year-old man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Editor&#8217;s note: Efren Martinez&#8217;s aggravated assault with a deadly weapon was dismissed on Nov. 20, 2025. <\/p>\n<p>El Paso police arrested a 32-year-old man in connection to a shooting in South Central El Paso that sent one man to the hospital. <\/p>\n<p>According to the El Paso Police Department, on Monday, Efren Martinez was arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after he reportedly shot and injured a 22-year-old man.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting happened at the 6700 block of Sambrano Avenue, near the Seville Recreation Center around 5:40 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"http:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/crime-news\/three-hospitalized-with-unknown-injuries-following-shooting-in-south-central-el-paso#?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Three hospitalized with unknown injuries following shooting in South Central El Paso<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police said they first responded to a shots-fired call and received information that a black SUV had left the scene of the shooting. <\/p>\n<p>They managed to locate the SUV and during a traffic stop, they discovered the 22-year-old victim.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, EPPD officers called for an ambulance and the victim was taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>According to EPPD, Martinez was identified as the shooter after an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/developing-story-shooting-in-southcentral-el-paso-sends-one-to-hospital?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">1 person taken to hospital after shooting at homeless encampment in south-central El Paso<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Martinez was booked into the County Jail in Downtown El Paso, where as of Wednesday afternoon he remains jailed under a $50,000 bond, according to jail records. <\/p>\n<p>Martinez&#8217;s bond was first set at $100,000, however, court documents show that after a bond hearing held on Wednesday, his bond was lowered.  <\/p>\n<p>This story was updated on Dec. 12, 2025, to reflect that Martinez&#8217;s charge was dismissed. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>READ THE COMMENTS (2)<\/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 Editor&#8217;s note: Efren Martinez&#8217;s aggravated assault with a deadly weapon was dismissed on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-86116","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\/86116","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=86116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}