El Paso shooting wounds man outside Upper East Side house party
An unsolved shooting outside a house party in the Upper East Side on June 14, 2025, is the El Paso Crime of the Week.
Provided by Crime Stoppers of El Paso
- El Paso police released body camera footage of a shooting where officers exchanged gunfire with Salvador Valdiviezo, 35, resulting in his death and an officer wounded.
- The video shows Valdiviezo pointing a gun at officers, leading to a rapid exchange of gunfire outside a home.
- The female officer was wounded and applied a tourniquet.
Editor’s note: The attached El Paso Police Department video linked below features disturbing content. Viewer discretion is advised.
About two dozen gunshots are fired as two El Paso police patrol officers exchanged gunfire with a man armed with a handgun in a quick, deadly confrontation outside an Upper Valley home, according to a newly-released police body camera video.
Salvador Valdiviezo, 35, was killed and a police officer was wounded in the shootout on the afternoon of June 1 that began as soon as two officers arrived at a family violence call on Passo Via Street in the Upper Valley, officials said.
The El Paso Police Department on Monday evening, June 30, publicly released a video featuring the body camera footage of both officers.
The video was released “in the interest of transparency and community engagement,” the department stated. Police officials noted that the body-worn camera has a fixed chest-level viewpoint and do not capture everything that an officer might see.
The Passo Via Street case was part of an uncommonly violent June that included two other shootings involving El Paso police and men armed with knives or a gun. The suspects in those two other shootings were wounded but not killed. The cases are all under investigation.
Passo Via shooting suspect was nurse, Navy vet
Valdiviezo was a registered nurse at Three Crosses Regional Hospital in Las Cruces and had served in the U.S. Navy, according to an obituary. A silver pickup truck parked in the driveway of the home with a Texas “DV,” disabled veteran license plate, can be seen in the police body camera video.
Valdiviezo appears to repeatedly say “shoot me” as he holds the gun up, down and pointing it directly at the officers, according to body cam video.
The body camera footage shows an intense confrontation that lasts less than a minute as two dozen gunshots are heard as Valdiviezo and the two officers maneuver in the front of the house and residential street.
The confrontation began immediately after a “full crew,” or two-officer patrol, arrived on a call of family violence in progress at a home in the 6400 block of Passo Via Street off Borderland Road, police spokespersons previously said.
Other people were inside the home, including children, during the confrontation, police spokesman Sgt. Robert Gomez said during a news briefing on the day of the shooting. The total number of gunshots fired has not been disclosed.
Body cam video shows El Paso police shooting
The body camera video shows a male and a female officer walking up the street to the home in the middle-class neighborhood at 3:26 p.m. with a video time stamp of 15:26:27 hours.
Before the officers reach the front yard, Valdiviezo is seen outside by the front door walking to the driveway holding what turned out to be gun in his hand that he then points toward police, according to the body camera video.
“Raise your hands, raise your hands,” the female officer yells as the gunshots start about 15:26:41 on the video. “Shots fired,” the officers radio.
Gunfire continues as Valdiviezo runs onto the street, he appears to hold the gun up, down and toward police. Both officers shoot, now standing on the driveway next to the parked truck and the side of the house. Valdiviezo then runs back onto the driveway closer to the door.
The female officer reloads as the shooting continues. The male officer angles to the behind the back of the truck with a view of Valdiviezo as he stand in the driveway.
“Shoot me,” Valdiviezo appears to repeatedly say, holding the gun up near his head and then pointing it before he is shot and drops to the ground.
The body is blurred in the publicly-released video but two blood stains can be seen on his chest as well as on a leg. Vadiviezo was transported to a hospital and died of his wounds. The number of times that he was shot has not been released.
“I’m hit. I’m hit.’ El Paso police officer wounded in shootout
“I’m hit, I’m hit,” the female officer yells on the video, cursing as she sits down on the driveway and applies a tourniquet to her right leg. She was transported in stable condition to University Medical Center of El Paso.
Both officers involved in the shooting have two years with the El Paso Police Department. Their names were not disclosed.
As is standard practice, the police shooting remains under investigation by the police detectives with the Crimes Against Persons Unit, the Internal Affairs Shooting Review Team and the Rangers of the Texas Department of Public Safety.
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