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On August 3, 2019, a mass shooting occurred at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, United States. The gunman, 21-year-old Patrick Wood Crusius, killed 23 people [n 1] and injured 22 others. [14] [15] The Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated the shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and a hate crime.
In October 2011, Kinder Morgan Inc. agreed to buy El Paso Corp. for $21.1 billion and gave the combined company 67,000 mi (108,000 km) of gas lines, eclipsing Enterprise Products Partners LP as the biggest US pipeline operator.
Gannon was reported missing by his stepmother on January 27, 2020. She told the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office that he left home between 3:15 p.m. and 4 p.m. to walk to a friend's house, but never returned. The initial press release on his disappearance described him as a "juvenile runaway.” However, three days later, the sheriff’s office reclassified his case as a missing or endangered ...
The University of Texas at El Paso ( UTEP) is a public research university in El Paso, Texas. It is a member of the University of Texas System. UTEP is the second-largest university in the United States to have a majority Mexican American student population (about 80%) after the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. [7] It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research ...
The El Paso–Juárez region is the largest bilingual, binational work force in the Western Hemisphere. [9] This region is commonly subdivided into the Juárez Metropolitan Area (Zona Metropolitana de Juárez) in Chihuahua, Greater El Paso in Texas and Greater Las Cruces [broken anchor] in New Mexico.
El Paso Natural Gas (EPNG) is an American company and a 10,140-mile pipeline system consisting of a system of natural gas pipelines that brings gas from the Permian Basin in Texas and the San Juan Basin in New Mexico and Colorado to West Texas, New Mexico, Nevada, California, and Arizona.
ASARCO conducts solvent extraction and electrowinning at the Ray and Silver Bell mines in Pima County, Arizona, and Pinal County, Arizona, and operates a smelter in Hayden, Arizona. ASARCO's smelting plant in El Paso, Texas, was suspended in 1999 and then demolished on April 13, 2013.
History of El Paso, Texas. Founded as El Paso del Norte (at what is now Ciudad Juárez, Mexico) by Spanish Franciscan friars at an important mountain pass, the area became a small agricultural producer though most settlement was south of the river where modern Mexico lies. The city was considered part of New Mexico under Spanish Conquerors and ...