El Paso police arrested a man suspected in an afternoon shooting that wounded a man in the Magoffin section of the South Side, east of Downtown.

Alan Guillermo Torres, 29, was arrested on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly shooting a 38-year-old man, who was hospitalized in undisclosed condition, detective Judy Oviedo, an El Paso Police Department spokesperson, stated in a news release on Wednesday, Oct. 1.

About 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 30, police responded to call of gunshots being fired in the area of the 100 block of Newman Street near Magoffin Avenue and Cotton Street, police stated. Officers later learned that the man wounded in the shooting was at a hospital.

A possible motive in the shooting was not disclosed.

After an investigation, police arre

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