At least eightpeople ages 15 to 18 were injured in a shooting after an argument broke out between two groups at a house party in El Paso, Texas, authorities said Saturday.
The shooting happened Friday night at a house where El Paso city police said over a hundred people were in attendance by the time officers arrived, according to a statement.
“The investigation revealed there was a party being held at a residence and uninvited guests arrived to the party,” the news release stated.
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As an argument began, a shooter began firing into the crowd, striking several people, authorities said.
Several people were fleeing when officers arrived, police said. The department’s gang unit responded to assist with the investigation.
The shooting victims included two 16-year-old girls, three 16-year-old boys and a 15-year-old girl, according to police.
Two 18-year-olds also were hurt, police said.
Six of those injured were transported to hospitals with non life-threatening injuries, according to police.
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The shooting is among over 360 mass shootings to occur in the United States so far in 2023, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
There have been 2,146 US shootings this year where children ages 12 to 17 have been injured, the archive’s data shows.
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This month, the full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld its decision to remove U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack from a 14-year lawsuit against the Texas foster care system. The refusal to rehear the case also threw out Jack’s most recent finding of contempt against the state agencies involved.
It was an unfortunate outcome. Jack has been resolute and effective. Her orders prodded the state to spend more than $150 million reforming the foster care system — and the system has improved.
The original lawsuit was filed in 2011 on behalf of children stranded in the state’s foster care system. It named the governor and the chief executives of the Health and Human Services Commission and Department of Family and Protective Services as defendants.
As the case progressed, it revealed dire problems with investigations, placements, providers, staffing and caseloads. It also revealed the state’s recalcitrance toward court oversight, which occasionally drew Jack’s ire.
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In its ruling, the 5th Circuit cited snippets of Jack’s courtroom remarks as proof that she was no longer impartial and should be removed from the case. In a strongly worded dissent filed Feb. 11, Judge Stephen A. Higginson disagreed.
“I worry that we have concluded, from Judge Jack’s assiduous effort in the face of structural friction and intense factual complexity … that Judge Jack is not suited to preside over this case for precisely the reasons that she is suited to preside over this case.”
He also argued that, while the foster system had improved, one group of children still needs the court’s diligent protection. These youngsters are in permanent managing conservatorship; they will never be reunited with their families. They have intellectual and developmental disabilities, often are medically fragile and are exceptionally vulnerable to abuse and neglect.
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His concerns were validated in the court monitors’ most recent report about deaths among these foster children. One case, involving an 11-year-old child with autism, is horrifying.
The boy, identified as O.R., had been placed in a residential treatment center in Greenville with a decade-plus history of serious violations. O.R. died during an outing with 19 other residents of the center to see the R-rated action movie Gladiator II.
Staff claimed the boy had been fine and walked into the movie theater on his own. However, law enforcement officers reviewed the theater’s security video and saw that the boy had been unable to walk unassisted, fell to the ground beside the ticket counter and had to be half-carried to a seat. He was dead by the time the movie was over.
Treatment center residents told investigators the boy had been screaming in pain that morning, hadn’t eaten any meals and had slept most of the day. A preliminary medical examiner’s report revealed the boy had a twisted intestine that had caused a bowel obstruction, a serious medical emergency.
O.R. was one of the foster children Jack worked to protect. We hope the next jurist assigned the case is as relentless in that effort as she has been.
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Rain clears out, leaving North Texas with a week of sunny skies
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Rain clears out, leaving North Texas with a week of sunny skies
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A weak disturbance is passing through North Texas this morning, bringing rain to parts of the area.
This system will continue tracking eastward, moving the rain out of the Metroplex by late morning. However, eastern counties may continue to experience some light, scattered rain into the afternoon.
The morning will start with some cloud coverage thanks to that disturbance, but clouds will break as the rain exits, giving way to afternoon sunshine.
Temperatures will continue to warm this afternoon, with highs into the upper 50s and low 60s across North Texas, just a couple of degrees below normal for this time of year.
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By Monday, however, temperatures return to above average. Monday morning lows start in the upper 30s and lower 40s, and highs top out near 70 degrees for the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Sunshine will kick off the week, warming Tuesday’s highs into the mid 70s.
A few clouds return midweek, with a bit of a breeze Wednesday.
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Highs top out in the lower 70s Wednesday as a dry cold front advances through the region. That front drops temps back into the middle 60s by Thursday.
North Texas warms back into the 70s to end the workweek and kick off the next weekend.