At the same time, El Paso officials received calls on the city’s 911 line reporting the sound of gunshots near Cesar Chavez Border Highway, which runs along the Rio Grande, Baranyay said.

Romero was treated at University Medical Center of El Paso and released; the child was not hurt in the shooting, Baranyay said. It was not clear whether the two were related, he said.

During an evening news conference at El Paso City Hall on Tuesday, Police Chief Greg Allen said the bullet was believed to be a stray round from a shooting between carjackers and police in the Mexican border city of Juarez. Up to 50 shots were fired during the shooting, officials said.

The Police Department and El Paso County Sheriff’s Office went live late last week with the new map that is the latest development in using the Internet to keep residents informed.

The map uses technology that a generation ago was more the stuff of science fiction than something accessible to anyone with a home computer or a smartphone.

“The benefit to the public is that they can see the crime in the city and in their respective neighborhoods,” said Officer Greg Furr, who help set up the program for the Police Department.

The map is Raids Online by BAIR Analytics, an analytical software and services company that offers similar services to police departments across the nation, including the cities of Austin and San Francisco.

Furr said the map was included in an annual subscription of about $8,500 a year in a contract that includes the police Citizen Observer, an online crime information system, and Tip 411, which collect anonymous crime tips via text message.

About 5:40 p.m., two men were assaulted by two other men in the 2900 block of East Paisano Drive near Bowie High School, Petry said. The assailants smashed out a vehicle’s passenger window and each of the victims was stabbed. The men were able to drive away and flag down a police officer a short distance away.

The men, ages 44 and 42, were taken to University Medical Center of El Paso with wounds that were not believed to be life threatening. An investigation continues.

The city would save hundreds of thousands of dollars if the county elections department ran it instead of hiring a third-party vendor.However, the county elections department does not know whether it can commit to that help due to the unresolved statewide redistricting situation currently tangled up in federal court. Because of disputes over district lines, judges have not pinned down the exact date for the Texas primary election.If the state’s primary election date is too close to the city’s recall election date, the county can not commit to running both.However, county elections administrator Javier Chacon said the latest information indicates the state primaries will be delayed until late May or June. An official court order is still pending on that decision.If that court order goes through, the county could help run the recall election for the city, thereby absorbing the brunt of the costs.

Meanwhile, the county elections department has already begun helping with preparations for the April 14th recall election by setting up early voting sites and making sure deadlines are met.It’s important to note, however, the recall election could be delayed or canceled for a reason that has nothing to do with redistricting. A ruling from the court of appeals is still pending on a lawsuit filed by Mayor John Cook alleging recall organizers broke Texas election code.

The minister is in North America for a five-day visit to the U.S. and Canada where he will meet top army and diplomatic officials.

De Maiziere’s office said in a Tuesday release that he’ll meet Wednesday with German troops training at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, and airmen training at Holloman Air Force Base, in southeast New Mexico.

German troops train at Fort Bliss in the use of the Patriot missiles, among other programs, while Luftwaffe (LOOFT’-wah-fah) members train to fly Tornado fighters at Holloman.

De Maiziere will meet with his American counterpart Leon Panetta Thursday to discuss developments in Afghanistan and within NATO.

Peggy Penalber called KFOX14 News Monday night to say that it was her brother, Glenn Sanderson, 53, who was barricaded inside an eastside home. 

El Paso police and members of the SWAT team had an entire neighborhood blocked off.

Apparently, a man was seen at a neighbor’s front door with a weapon and police were called. The man came outside his home for a moment, then went back inside and stopped communicating with police.

Penalber said that her brother is schizophrenic and off his medication. She also said that he does not own a gun, just an air-pump BB gun.

The standoff ended, after a brief struggle, shortly after midnight.

They told a Delaware chancery court that these alleged conflicts of interest, plus those of deal adviser Goldman Sachs Group Inc, so badly marred the merger that the court should block a shareholder vote scheduled for next month.

Chancery Court Judge Leo Strine described the alleged conflicts as “disturbing” but appeared to reject the idea of enjoining a shareholder vote. Instead he said he could let shareholders decide if they wanted to approve the deal and allow them to sue for damages caused by the conflicts.

Strine, who said he would soon decide whether to enjoin the vote, also pointed out the damage that shareholders would suffer if he blocked the deal, since that could prompt Kinder Morgan to walk away and El Paso’s stock might tank.

“You want me to enjoin the stink, but only until June 30 and then you still get the stink,” said Strine.

They told a Delaware chancery court that these alleged conflicts of interest, plus those of deal adviser Goldman Sachs Group Inc, so badly marred the merger that the court should block a shareholder vote scheduled for next month.

The Tucson club, which is the Triple-A affiliate of the San Diego Padres and a member of the Pacific Coast League, is a good bet to be sold some time in the next six weeks. An original deal in Escondido, Calif., has fallen through and a group of El Pasoans is said to be in the mix trying to buy the team. The group would build a privately funded stadium in the Downtown area, most probably around Union Depot. Teams at the Triple-A level are usually one step away from the major leagues.