Posted on 06/30/2010 11:15:54 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
El Paso, TX -- El Paso Police officials say stray gunfire from a deadly attack in Juarez may have been the cause of the City Hall building in Downtown El Paso being hit by seven gunshots at about 5 p.m. Tuesday.
One of those gunshots pierced through a ninth floor window of the office of Assistant City Manager Pat Adauto. The north and south stucco walls of City Hall were struck by an additional six rounds at varying heights on the walls.
No one was injured by any of the bullets. Police said El Paso City Hall does not appear to be the specific target of these rounds.
City employees were inside City Hall during this incident.
El Paso Police spokesman Darrel Petry said, "There was an assault that occurred in Juarez, right now we believe that these rounds may be stray rounds from that incident."
The shootout in Juarez that happened at the same time as the shooting at City Hall left a man dead in the area of Cloro and Avenida Norzagaray in Juarez. That area is about a mile away from El Paso's City hall.
According to our news partners in Juarez a Mexican Federal Officer was killed in that attack.
El Paso police investigators say the investigation into the shooting is still on going.
El Paso Mayor John Cook told ABC-7 business will continue as usual at city hall.
Wow, that pic is almost exactly what Juarez looks like in Google Earth. I’m in Louisiana and hope/pray that we never have those problems that El Paso seemingly has with them (though we have our own corrupt politicians here). They should stick the National Guard down there and shoot first, ask questions later (course I’m aware that that would require a POTUS of Reagan-like qualities).
If all shots were fired from across the border, how is that physically or geometrically possible?
You RRRRAAAYCIST! Those bullets were just coming here for a better life!
I've flown out of ELP at night, and the difference between El Paso (ooh, look we have electric lights), and Juarez is kinda like the difference between S. Korea, and N. Korea. I'm surprised the Mexicans aren't running extension cords across the border to their side.
She has man hands.
*** Shanty towns on the mexico side and reasonably well-kept houses on the U.S. side. I guess the mexicans don’t like well kept residences.***
I visited Juarez back in 1966. My uncle took us on a drive over there into more affluent areas. What I saw was beautiful, well kept houses owned by the “elete”, and just across the street was a shanty town. One person there had made his “home” out of a stripped car in which he had replaced all the glass with cardboard.
Went to Baja and TJ ten years ago. Not much had changed.
I was actually once in the office of Mayor Cook--got a tour thanks to one of his kind secretaries--and saw that view of Franklin mountain from his office. I HATED the climate and topography of that area--made me miss my green valley of the Rogue River in Oregon so much--but the people were as warm as the climate, and it breaks my heart to see how the violence of the cartels has destroyed so many lives--many of them children!
While I want no part of amnesty, or any other benefit that rewards illegal immigration, I do feel very strongly that the people of Mexico, especially those who live in border towns like El Paso, desperately need bold prayers for their "deliverance from evil".
And so do those Border Patrol agents who try--often in vain--to secure our southern border. The EVIL so often sseems so overwhelming--yet as the Apostle Paul so powerfully reminds us, in Christ we are "more than conquerors".
wrong. they like your well kept residence.
During the Battle of Aqua Prieta, gunfire spilled over into neighboring Douglas, AZ. The wife of a pharmacist in my hometown had lived for a time in a tent east of Douglas when her father, a 1st Sgt. was stationed near Douglas. She recalled hiding under the wooden platform floor of the tent as bullets from the battle whizzed through the fabric of the tent.
The Santa Fe Bar in Aqua Prieta had old water cooled machine guns, rifles and barbed wire from the battle behind the bar. You could still see some trenches on the outskirts of AP. Talk to old timers in the bars on both sides of the line and you could hear tales of varying credibility.
It is worth noting that the difference in the housing on the two sides of the line in El Paso / Juarez is due largely to the fact that true poverty exists in Mexico unlike the politicized poverty so often found here.
Finally, there is no doubt that Mexico is in a state of civil war with the government the lesser of two very real evils.
There are some absolutely gorgeous neighborhoods and houses in Juarez, for instance, out by the country club. There is a lot of wealth there. But those areas are not the ones close to the border. And the entire city is surrounded by colonias, makeshift houses, poverty and all varieties of crime. Hundreds of thousands of the poor from the north of Mexico have swarmed there in search of maquiladora jobs, and these people have overrun what used to be a fairly decent and safe city. Then the narcotraficantes arrived and terrorized everyone. All of those who can afford it have moved to El Paso — and many who can’t.
What a steaming pile this statement is! Apparently ALL the "stray rounds" just happened to hit City Hall. Really, the drug lords were not trying to send a message. Nothing to see here folks. Move along now.
It sounds like Texas and Arizona need to establish a well arm Militia under state control.
i have to drive threw there...
“The bullets struck the north & south sides of City Hall”.
Someone help me here——
I know Juarez is south of El Paso, so that makes sense if the shots came from Juarez.
Where did the shots come from that hit the NORTH side of City hall?
I need some ballistics help here, please.
For those that might not know, El Paso a city of about 800,000, is little more than northern Juarez.
Why would they even mention this?
The shootout in Juarez that happened at the same time as the shooting at City Hall left a man dead in the area of Cloro and Avenida Norzagaray in Juarez. That area is about a mile away from El Paso's City hall.
Lets see, there is a shooting freaking mile away, and multiple rounds hit city hall? ....lol
Just an itty bitty, unintentional accident?
The endless a$$ kissing of illegals and Mexicans in Mexico seems endless...
Ping!
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