Docs: Man arrested in murder of ex-girlfriend
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A 24-year-old man has been arrested in the murder of his ex-girlfriend in far East El Paso, according to court documents obtained by KTSM.
Gabriel Samuel Arnold, 24, was arrested and charged in the shooting death of Kimberly Alaniss Segovia, 26, according to court documents. He is being held on a $1 million bond, according to court records.
Court documents also say that Arnold admitted to a friend that he had shot the victim more than a dozen times.
Police originally responded to a shooting just before 1 a.m. on Wednesday, March 27 along the 4470 block of Rich Beem.
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When officers arrived, they found a woman with multiple gunshot wounds. She was taken to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Police were able to locate video of a vehicle matching the victim’s arriving and parking at a convenience store on Montana Avenue in East El Paso.
The video also captured the woman entering the store with a man, whom was later identified as Arnold, according to court documents. The woman was shown leaving the restroom and both her and the man then got back into her vehicle but did not fuel up. The vehicle then left the store.
Investigators were not able to locate the victim’s vehicle at the crime scene but did find her cell phone and processed it for fingerprints.
Investigators were then later able to track down the woman’s vehicle to where it had been taken, and it had suffered damage that was consistent with being involved in a shooting, according to court documents.
Investigators were able to locate video of the vehicle being dropped off and two males exiting it, according to court documents.
Investigators were later able to find the suspect (Arnold) and placed him under arrest for an unrelated criminal warrant.
During a subsequent interview with police, the suspect said the victim was his ex-girlfriend and they had lived together in Albuquerque but they had broken up.
The suspect, who had been given his Miranda rights, told police they had been together and had a “verbal argument,” but said the woman had dropped him off and he was never with the victim on the far Eastside of El Paso, where the murder happened.
The suspect then ended the interview by asking for an attorney, court documents said.
Police were able to use video to place the suspect and the victim together at a bar along Zaragoza earlier in the evening of the murder. Police talked to the bartender who said she could not clearly hear them talk but could tell that the suspect was upset and was yelling at the victim.
The bartender said the woman kept telling the suspect to lower his voice because he was embarrassing her, according to court documents.
Police were able to track down three men at the convenience store along Montana where the suspect and victim had been seen on video.
One of the witnesses at the convenience store told police that the suspect had asked for a ride, but the victim yelled, “Don’t give him a ride, he’s going to rob you.”
The men also told police the suspect appeared to intoxicated or high. One of the witnesses also told police that the suspect was carrying a satchel across his chest area and may have had a gun inside it.
The witnesses also said the man walked back to the car with the victim and they appeared to be arguing, with the suspect reportedly yelling, “Shut the (expletive) up,” according to court documents.
Police were also able to use video to track the suspect’s movements the night of the murder and were able to see the suspect and an unknown subject pick up the what appeared to the victim’s car, which was taken after the murder.
Video footage also showed the suspect and the other subject being picked up where the victim’s vehicle was dropped off, court documents said.
They then went to an apartment in Northeast El Paso. Other footage shows the defendant having a difficult time walking, staggering and falling to his knees, according to court documents.
Police later obtained a search warrant for the apartment that the suspect visited. The man who lived there told police that he had received a phone call from the suspect asking for his help in changing a tire or giving him a ride, court documents said.
The man who lived at the apartment also said the suspect had a pink wallet in his possession and a New Mexico drivers license of a woman, according to court documents.
The man in the apartment also told police that the suspect told him that he had shot “his girlfriend 16 times and did not want to go to jail for the rest of his life,” according to court documents.
On April 9, a warrant was issued for Arnold’s arrest, according to a news release from police. He was arrested on Monday, April 22 without incident and booked into El Paso County Jail.
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