El Paso ‘road rage’ suspect shot by police accused in East, West Side assaults spree

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El Paso ‘road rage’ suspect shot by police accused in East, West Side assaults spree

A driver is accused of dragging a man with a car and punching a motorist in a “road rage” spree before he was shot and wounded by an El Paso police officer on the West Side earlier this month, court documents stated.

Angel Wolfgang Trevizo, 33, who was shot twice, once in the shoulder and once in the stomach, was booked into jail on Feb. 9 after being treated and released from a hospital, officials said. He remains at the El Paso County Jail Annex.

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Trevizo, who was driving a ****** 2000 Toyota Corolla with Texas license plates, is accused in a rash of violence on the afternoon of Feb. 3 that culminated with him being shot by a police officer. The mile-long crime scene blocked Sunland Park Drive, snarling traffic in part of West El Paso.

The case is detailed in criminal complaint affidavits obtained by the El Paso Times that were filed by three police detectives and an officer in cases that ended up converging at the intersection of Sunland Park Drive and North Mesa Street.

El Paso police officers motion to traffic on a closed Sunland Park Drive next to Cromo Drive during an investigation into a police shooting of a “road rage” suspect on Feb. 3 on the West Side. The police shooting occurred at Sunland Park Drive at North Mesa Street.

Trevizo, who works doing odd jobs, lives with his grandparents on Sierra Morena Drive in the Marty Robbins neighborhood of the East Side, a public defense attorney mentioned at a teleconference bond hearing. He does not have an attorney listed on court records.

Court records indicate a mental health evaluation has been ordered.

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About 1 p.m., Ballymote Drive near Edgemere Elementary School: A stranger knocked loudly on the front door of a house, asking if a red wooden fence in the yard was painted in blood, an affidavit stated.

The bearded stranger, later identified as Trevizo, was wearing a “floppy” ****** hat, a ****** suit with a red button-up floral shirt and ****** dress shoes. He was holding a tall Busch Light beer can and appeared “highly intoxicated,” the resident who answered the door later told police. The man at the house told Trevizo that the fence was red, but it was just paint.

“It better not be blood, or your family is going to die,” Trevizo responded, according to the complaint.

As the dark-suited stranger walked back to his car, the resident began taking photos with his cellphone. When the resident approached the driver’s side of the car to try to get a clear photo of the stranger’s face, Trevizo allegedly smacked the phone out of his hand, causing it to fall into Trevizo’s car, the affidavit stated.

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Angel Wolfgang Trevizo, who is accused in a “road rage” assault, was arrested after being shot and wounded by an El Paso police officer on Feb. 3, 2025, at North Mesa Street and Sunland Park Drive on the West Side of El Paso, Texas.

As the resident “was looking to see where his phone had landed, the Defendant (Trevizo) grabbed him by the shirt and pulled him through the driver’s window of the car,” the affidavit stated. The man had half his body inside the car when Trevizo allegedly drove off at a high speed and released the man, who was holding onto the window frame.

Trevizo allegedly drove on the wrong side of the road, trying to get the other man’s body to hit cars parked along the street. The man fearing for his life, let go and fell to the ground as the car sped away, the affidavit stated.

The victim’s grandfather, who witnessed the entire incident as his grandson was dragged away, picked him up off the ground and took him back to the house before an ambulance transported him to Del Sol Medical Center, the affidavit stated.

Initially dispatched on a call of a vehicle collision, two police officers spoke with the injured man at the hospital. He had on a neck brace, several scrapes and bruises to his knees, feet and arms and a broken pinky toe, the affidavit stated. The victim’s brother was tracking his brother’s missing iPhone via the “Find My Phone” app, which showed the phone by Sunland Park Drive and North Mesa Street.

‘I’m scared dad, please leave.’ Driver punched at West Side intersection

About 1:56 p.m., intersection of North Mesa Street and Sunland Park Drive: A man was driving with his young son in green Ford F-150 pickup truck when he saw drivers honking at a ****** car stopped in the northbound lanes of North Mesa Street, the affidavit stated.

The car’s driver, Trevizo, appeared to be yelling something and was making offensive hand gestures at other motorists in front of the truck.

As the truck went around the car, Trevizo allegedly extended his hand and hit the truck’s passenger side mirror, before both vehicles stopped at the red light, the affidavit stated. Trevizo then angled his car in front of the truck, bumping it before backing up, getting inches from the truck passenger side, while yelling, and before blocking the two turning lanes in front.

“I’m scared dad, please leave,” the boy, who started crying, told his father, who missed the green light when his truck was hit, the affidavit stated.

The pickup driver told police that he rolled down his window and started recording the car driver with his cellphone to later show police. Trevizo — who allegedly appeared to be drunk — got out of his car and began cursing at the man, yelling at other cars and hitting the truck’s windows during the red light.

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The man in the truck then saw two police officers across the street on the sidewalk and began honking to get their attention, the affidavit states. The pickup driver rolled down his window, pointing at Trevizo, who then walked up to him.

The window was halfway up when Trevizo stopped the window with his left hand and with a right-handed punch struck the pickup driver near his left eye, knocking off his glasses. The pickup driver then pushed Trevizo’s arm out the window as Trevizo returned to his car and started revving the engine, the affidavit stated.

El Paso police officer shoots ‘road rage’ suspect

About 1:56 p.m., intersection of Sunland Park Drive and North Mesa Street: Officer D. McCalop and his partner, Officer O. Meise, were checking a person while working an assignment as a Tactical Unit, the affidavit stated. Both officers where in tactical police uniforms and had a marked patrol car.

The officers were at the northwest corner of the intersection when they heard honking and saw a ****** Toyota Corolla in the left turn lane blocking a green Ford F-150.

McCalop “immediately recognized it as a road rage incident” when he saw Trevizo hitting the truck with his hand, the affidavit stated. McCalop ran across the street to intervene as Trevizo was getting back into his car.

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El Paso police cars block the intersection of Sunland Park Drive and Cromo Drive as part of a large crime scene during an investigation after a police officer shot and wounded a driver suspected in a “road rage” assault on Feb. 3, 2025.

McCalop was crossing in front of the car when Trevizo allegedly drove toward him trying to run him over, affidavits stated. McCalop was near the front bumper, allegedly in fear of being struck and moved to the right side as the car accelerated before he fired two shots, hitting Trevizo, the complaint stated. The Toyota then turned southwest, heading downhill on Sunland Park Drive.

During the bond hearing, Trevizo shook his head “no” when the prosecutor said that he nearly hit the officer while driving toward him.

Meise rushed back to the patrol car, turned on its emergency red-and-blue flashing lights and drove into the intersection to pick up McCalop as they pursued the Toyota down Sunland Park Drive, the affidavit stated.

After a short pursuit, the Toyota was stopped about a mile away when an unmarked police vehicle got in front of the car forcing it to stop before reaching Cromo Drive, documents stated.

After Trevizo was removed from his car, officers noticed he had been shot twice and provided first aid until paramedics arrived and transported him to a hospital, the affidavit stated.

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During the investigation, detectives obtained a search warrant for the Toyota, where they found the missing iPhone belonging to the man dragged on Ballymote Drive. The cellphone was returned to the injured man, who showed police the photos he had taken of the car, including its license plate, an affidavit stated.

Trevizo was also wearing the large brim ****** hat, ****** clothing and distinct red floral shirt described in the incident an hour prior to the police shooting.

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On Feb. 9, Trevizo was released from the hospital and booked into jail. He faces charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon (the car in the Ballymote case), assault, aggravated assault against a public servant and evading arrest with a vehicle.

He is remains jailed under a total bond of $185,000 as of Tuesday, Feb. 18.

As is standard practice, the officer’s shooting for Trevizo is under investigation by the police Crimes Against Persons Unit, the department’s Shooting Review Team and the Texas Rangers.

Daniel Borunda may be reached at *****@*****.tld and 

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