An alleged armed robber who targeted an El Paso Wing Daddy’s restaurant at 12:19 a.m. Monday was shot dead while trying to flee the business with money in hand.
Officers were dispatched to the restaurant after receiving a call on an aggravated robbery in progress, KFOX 14 reported, but they arrived on scene to find the body of the alleged robber, 24-year-old Ace Isaac De Santiago, behind the store. He had been shot numerous times.
Police are now trying to ascertain who shot De Santiago.
KTSM noted that De Santiago allegedly “assaulted the business manager and stole money from the business at gunpoint,” but the El Paso Times observed that “the restaurant manager was not the shooter and De Santiago still had the stolen money with him when he was killed.”
Anyone who may have details on the robbery and subsequent shooting is asked to call the El Paso Police Department’s non-emergency line at 915-832-4400.
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