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3 days ago
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El Paso police officer wounded, shooter killed in gunfight at Upper Valley home
An El Paso police officer was wounded and a man suspected in a domestic violence incident was killed in a gunfight at a home in the Upper Valley, authorities said. A female officer and another officer responded to a report of a family fight in progress about 3:15 p.m. Sunday, June 1, at a home in the 6400 block of Passo Via Street, El Paso Police Department spokesperson Sgt. Robert Gomez said. The address is in the area of Borderland Road and Westside Drive. Crime: El Paso police investigate fatal crash, Dyer Street shooting "As the officers approached the residence, a Hispanic male exited a residence and opened fire on the officers. Officers returned fire, and during the exchange of gunfire, an officer was struck," Gomez said. The shooter was fatally shot by police. The call of "shots fired" went out at 3:20 p.m., prompting a large response as backup officers rushed to the scene in the middle-class neighborhood. The shooter was believed to have been armed with a handgun, according to preliminary information, Gomez said. Other people were inside the home, including children, during the confrontation. The wounded officer, whose name has not been released, was shot and taken to University Medical Center of El Paso for treatment. She is currently in stable condition, Gomez said. More: El Paso 'road rage' suspect shot by police accused in East, West Side assaults spree The man shot by police died after he was taken to a hospital, Gomez said. The name of the man has not been released. As is standard practice, the officer-involved shooting is under investigation by the El Paso Police Department's Crimes Against Persons Unit, the Texas Rangers and Internal Affairs. Daniel Borunda may be reached at dborunda@ and @BorundaDaniel on X. This article originally appeared on El Paso Times: El Paso police officer wounded , shooter killed in Upper Valley
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4 days ago
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Shooting involving El Paso police under investigation in the Upper Valley
An El Paso police officer has been transported to University Medical Center of El Paso in unknown condition following an officer-involved shooting in the Upper Valley. Crime: El Paso police investigate fatal crash, Dyer Street shooting The police shooting occurred about 3:15 p.m. Sunday, June 1, in the 6400 block of Passo Via Street, Sgt. Robert Gomez, a police spokesman, said in a message. The address is in the area of Borderland Road and Westside Drive. Initial information is limited. The Crimes Against Persons Unit is investigation. *This is a developing story. Check back later for updates. This article originally appeared on El Paso Times: El Paso police shooting under investigation in the Upper Valley
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4 days ago
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El Paso police investigate fatal crash, Dyer Street shooting
A deadly traffic crash, a shooting and a stabbing were keeping El Paso police busy over the weekend. One person died in a single-vehicle collision that occurred about 2 a.m. Sunday, June 1, in the area of Loop 375 and Spur 601, Sgt. Robert Gomez, a police spokesman, said in a message. The crash in under investigation by the Special Traffic Investigations Unit. Further details, including the name of the person who died, had yet to be disclosed. A two-block long crime scene had Dyer Street closed as police investigated an overnight shooting near bars in the Lower Dyer section of Central El Paso. The shooting occurred about 1 a.m. Sunday in the 4800 block of Dyer Street, a block that includes Big Mike's Place, Chit Chat bar and Luckyz Bar & Lounge, a police spokesperson said in a message. One person was transported to University Medical Center of El Paso in undisclosed condition. More: El Paso FBI leader talks of immigration enforcement, Tren de Aragua gang and more Detectives with the Crimes Against Persons Unit, crime-scene investigators and officers with the Gang Unit were still at the scene after sunrise as Dyer Street was blocked by yellow crime-scene tape and police cars from Pierce Avenue to Lincoln Avenue. Dyer Street was later re-opened. Further details on the shooting were not immediately availalble. Detectives with the Crimes Against Persons Unit were investigating a stabbing that sent one person to the hospital on Saturday morning, May 30, in a Northeast neighborhood. Homicides: El Paso teen killed in shooting after meeting someone in vehicle in far East Side The stabbing was reported about 8:45 a.m. Saturday in the 200 block of Impala Avenue in the Parkland neighborhood, police said. One person was transported to UMC in undisclosed condition. Further details had not been released. Daniel Borunda may be reached at dborunda@ and @BorundaDaniel on X. This article originally appeared on El Paso Times: El Paso police investigate Dyer Street shooting, fatal crash
5 days ago
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Remains of 19 Black Americans returned to New Orleans nearly 150 years later
The remains of 19 Black Americans whose skulls were taken to Leipzig, Germany, in the 1880s to perform "racial pseudoscience" experiments, were brought to New Orleans to be properly memorialized, a repatriation committee said Thursday. Dillard University, the City of New Orleans and University Medical Center will hold a New Orleans-style jazz funeral on Saturday morning for the 13 men, four women and two unidentified people, according to Dr. Monique Guillory, the president of the historically Black Louisiana university. "They were people with names," Guillory said at a press conference on Thursday. "They were people with stories and histories. Some of them had families -- mothers, fathers, daughters, sons, human beings -- not specimens, not numbers." Dr. Eva Baham, chair of Dillard University's Cultural Repatriation Committee, said during the press conference that the University of Leipzig reached out to the City of New Orleans in 2023 and offered to repatriate the remains. The Cultural Repatriation Committee formed in 2024 and looked through public records to identify exactly who the people were and establish a genealogy, according to Baham. The group has not been able to identify any descendants at this point, she noted. Baham's team located the people's death records in the archives of Charity Hospital. The medical institution served people of all races from 1736 until it was shuttered due to severe damage from Hurricane Katrina in 2005, according to a statement from Dillard University. University Medical Center New Orleans opened in its place in 2015 and was the major funder of the project, Baham said. Of the 19 people, 17 of them died in December 1871 and two died in January 1872, their ages ranging from 15 to 70 years old, according Baham. Many of them were not born in Louisiana but came from states like Kentucky and Tennessee. The committee discovered that 10 of the 19 people were in New Orleans for less than six years, Baham noted. "We have people who were here in New Orleans from one hour in 1871, one day, a week, two months," Baham said at the news conference. "I just want to remind you that the Civil War had ended in 1865, so we have 10 of these individuals who had arrived here after the American Civil War." The names of the 17 people that the committee was able to identify include Adam Grant, 50; Isaak Bell, 70; Hiram Smith, 23; William Pierson, 43; Henry Williams, 55; John Brown, 48; Hiram Malone, 21; William Roberts, 23; Alice Brown, 15; Prescilla Hatchet, 19; Marie Louise, 55; Mahala [no listed last name], 70; Samuel Prince, 40; John Tolman, 23; Henry Allen, 17; Moses Willis, 23; and Henry Anderson, 23. "We can't rewrite history," Charlotte Parent, vice president of business development at University Medical Center, said at the press conference. "The times were what the times were at the time, but we can always look back and figure out ways that we can embrace and make things as right as we can, and this is one of those opportunities for us to do that."
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24-05-2025
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Why UTA is drastically shifting TRAX Red Line service for most of the summer
Officials are drastically changing one of Utah Transit Authority's light-rail service lines for the next few months while it carries out a maintenance project on the tracks near the University to Utah. A project to repair infrastructure on Utah Transit Authority's TRAX Red Line was slated to begin Saturday, leading to a major shift in service. Trains that typically travel east toward the University Medical Center Station on campus will instead be rerouted to travel through downtown Salt Lake City, following the Blue Line to Salt Lake Central Station. 'The Red Line is going to be shut down basically from the Courthouse Station all the way east along (400 South), through the S-curve and then all the way up to what is currently the end of the Red Line up to the university,' said UTA spokesman Gavin Gustafson. The project calls for the replacement of 'worn-out parts' of the Red Line, including track connections, guard rails, the overhead wires that power trains and the interlocking system that helps prevent train collisions, according to the agency. Infrastructure along the section where 400 South becomes 500 South near the university tends to wear down faster because of the curves and steep grade of the S-shaped curve, Gustafson explained. 'It does go through a pretty significant amount of wear and tear, so that's a big part of what we're doing there,' he said. The project is expected to continue through mid-August, which means the reroute will remain in place for months, aside from a brief pause surrounding Independence Day. Some limited Red Line TRAX service will briefly return July 3-5 for festivities planned by the university. It won't affect the Red Line's southern route. All services between Courthouse Station and Daybreak in South Jordan will remain the same. Riders seeking to reach the university are encouraged to take UTA's 1, 2 or 4 bus routes, which they can do by a bus stop located by the corner of 200 South and Main Street, less than a block from Gallivan Plaza Station. UTA officials are urging riders to plan ahead, advising that it could lead to delays of up to 45 minutes in travel time. Both the 1 and 2 routes, which are currently being detoured because of a separate road project along 100 South near the university, reach University Medical Center Station. Route 4 also travels along most of the red line route, taking riders to places like the Salt Lake City Public Library, Trolley Square and Rice-Eccles Stadium. UTA officials said they're adding additional service through Route 4R to accommodate expected rider demand from the TRAX closure, which will run between Gallivan Plaza and Rice-Eccles Stadium. The project is scheduled to wrap up on Aug. 17, ending in time for the start of the University of Utah's fall semester. The same goes for Salt Lake City's 100 South project.
