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Jesse Joe Carranza

Age : 21

Gender : Male

Race : Latino/a/e

Date : 07/13/2021

Location : 13000 Eastlake Boulevard

City : El Paso

County : El Paso

State : Texas

Agency : Texas Department of Public Safety

Officer(s) :Not Disclosed

Cause of Death : Gunshot

Event : Killed by police during confrontation

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

On 07/13/2021, at approximately 2:00 p.m., a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper stopped to refuel at the Murphy’s Express gas station at Peyton Road and Eastlake Boulevard in Horizon City. According to DPS, 21-year-old Jesse Joe Carranza drove a white pickup truck the wrong way through a one-way portion of the property and stopped behind the trooper’s patrol vehicle. Carranza exited the pickup and approached the trooper. DPS reported that a physical struggle followed and that Carranza grabbed the trooper’s Taser from his duty belt. The trooper fired his handgun, striking Carranza. Carranza was transported to a hospital, where he died. The Texas Rangers investigated the shooting.
Carranza’s family disputed the DPS account. His mother, Jessica Vargas, and the family’s attorneys said Carranza was unarmed and backing away from the trooper when he was shot. Vargas described her son as loving and nonviolent. The family retained attorneys Chloe Corbett and Augustus Corbett and held a public press conference in July 2022 demanding an open and transparent investigation. They said authorities had not provided the family with the trooper’s name or meaningful information about the shooting more than a year after Carranza’s death.
KFOX initially reported that the family was suing DPS, but the family’s attorneys issued a correction stating that the press conference concerned transparency and accountability rather than the filing of a lawsuit. The attorneys also criticized the length of the investigation and questioned why the case had not been presented to a grand jury more than a year after the shooting. They said a planned meeting with then-El Paso County District Attorney Yvonne Rosales was canceled after the press conference.

SOURCE LINKS :

https://cbs4local.com/news/local/law-enforcement-authorities-respond-to-incident-in-far-east-el-paso
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/police-responding-to-incident-at-gas-station-in-far-east-el-paso
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/family-of-jesse-carranza-man-killed-in-horizon-city-officer-involved-shooting-july-13-2021-sues-texas-dps-2022
https://corbettfirm.com/attorney-chloe-corbetts-response-to-kfox14-and-the-honorable-yvonne-rosales/