In response to reader Lou Castelo’s request to reprint an article that originally ran in October 2017, I am bringing back the following account of a police shootout at the El Paso Drive-In Theater on Chelsea Drive.
Gunfight at Central El Paso drive-in theater in 1957 left one officer dead, another injured
The El Paso Times received this letter from a reader asking for information about a grocery store robbery in 1957. Here’s the letter:
I am writing you with a special request and hope you will be able to help me.
Back in 1957 my uncle, an El Paso police officer, answered a robbery call at a grocery store on Pershing…