Teen arrested in masked attack, shots fired in South

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A teenager, Ricardo Jesus Montilla Padilla, was arrested in El Paso on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and drug possession.

Montilla and four masked assailants allegedly attacked a 29-year-old man, involving a beating and gunshots fired.

Montilla is jailed on a $76,500 bond and an ICE hold.

El Paso police gang investigators arrested a teenager accused of a violent beating involving men in masks and gunshots fired in a South-Central neighborhood.

A 29-year-old man was playing basketball in front of a home on Lisbon Street on the afternoon of July 5 when he was attacked, allegedly by Ricardo Jesus Montilla Padilla, 17, and four masked assailants, according to a criminal complaint and a prosecutor at a teleconference bond hearing on July 14.

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