EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A 24-year-old man was arrested for allegedly firing multiple rounds outside a bar in Central El Paso after he was unable to pay his tab, according to the El Paso Police Department.
Joseph Alexander Aguilar, from San Antonio, was charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and discharge of a firearm within city limits. He was booked into the El Paso County Detention Facility with a combined $103,000 bond, according to jail records.
Officers were dispatched on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 13, to the 800 block of Piedras Street to reports of shots fired. The shooting happened only about a block away from the Central El Paso Police Station, located at 911 N. Raynor St.
Preliminary investigation revealed that Aguilar and another individual were at a bar, Coconuts, and began to argue over the tab and the inability to pay it, according to EPPD…