A young man has been arrested on a murder charge in connection with a stabbing that killed a man at a West Side home over the weekend, El Paso police officials said.
Raymundo Morales III, 19, allegedly killed Angel Martin Herrera, 40, during a domestic violence incident early Sunday at a house in the 5800 block of Beaumont Place, police said in a news statement.
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Morales also faces a charge of assault-family violence by impeding breath or circulation, according to El Paso County Jail records.
Raymundo Morales III was arrested on a murder charge in Sunday’s fatal stabbing of Angel Martin Herrera, 40, at a home on Beaumont Place in West El Paso.
Morales in being held at the El Paso County Jail in Downtown on a total bond of $700,000 on the murder and family violence charges.
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About 4 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 12, police responded to a family violence call at a home on Beaumont Place next to Fremont Lane in the Cresmont neighborhood, officials said. Officers found Herrera had been stabbed. He was taken to a hospital, where he died.
Morales was taken into custody that same morning.
An El Paso police officer walks up the street from where homicide detectives on Sunday morning investigate a fatal stabbing at a West Side home in the 5800 block of Beaumont Place.
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The connection between Herrera and Morales has not been disclosed. An investigation by detectives with the Crimes Against Persons Unit continues.
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