One Dead, 5 Wounded in El Paso Desert Shooting: Police

One Dead, 5 Wounded in El Paso Desert Shooting: Police
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EL PASO, Texas—A 21-year-old man was killed and five people were wounded in a shooting that happened early on Sunday in a patch of desert on the eastern outskirts of El Paso, authorities said.

Sheriff’s deputies in the West Texas city were called to the scene around 3:15 a.m. and arrived to find several people wounded, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.