Yuma, Arizona, shooting: What we know so far about gunfire, suspect
Natalie Ross
Published Jan 21, 2026
A gunfire broke out only north of the US-Mexico line in Arizona on Saturday night, leaving seven individuals hospitalized
Police are yet to view as a suspect, yet are searching for them
The town with a populace of 97,000 is found 11 miles north of Mexico
A gunfire broke out only north of the US-Mexico line in Arizona on Saturday night, leaving seven individuals hospitalized. ABC News detailed that police in Arizona’s Yuma got data with respect to an exasperated attack at around 11 pm on Saturday, that occurred on South J Edward Drive. The town with a populace of 97,000 is found 11 miles north of Mexico.
Lieutenant Craig Johnson of Yuma Police Division let the media know that the police found a few group harmed when they arrived at the location. Be that as it may, it was at this point indistinct the number of individuals that were shot and the way in which serious their wounds were. Johnson added that the police didn’t have a suspect in that frame of mind, there could have been no more extensive danger to the public any longer. The police are as yet attempting to follow the suspect.
The episode comes after City chairman Douglas Nicholls on Saturday cautioned occupants that the Boundary Control intended to deliver almost 300 transients who were at this point to finish their full handling. He had additionally requested that the public try to avoid panicking, adding that transients entering the city had no lawbreaker record. It is muddled in the event that the shooting has a connection with the transient intersections.
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“These are individuals that have been reviewed to essentially to the place where Boundary Watch has given them notice to seem papers any place they wind up residing in the country. They are to finish up the legal cycle. Tragically, that interaction is years three to seven years to traverse that entire cycle,” he added.
On Friday, three white transports with 141 transients on board were seen crashing into the Yuma Public Security Preparing Office close to the air terminal and releasing the travelers near a holding region. The travelers were supposed to be taken to Phoenix by transport ultimately.
The arrival of transients concurred with the finish of Title 42, and the lifting of a limitation, planned during Donald Trump’s residency as President, to forestall the spread of Coronavirus.