UPDATE: SCENE CLEARED-El Paso Zoo Evacuated Due to Bomb Threat

UPDATED AT 5:50 PM — The secen has been cleared and rendered safe. The El Police Department, along with other law enforcment agenies, will continue to work the case.

16 May 2026, El Paso, Texas, Steven Zimmerman — An unknown subject has called in a bob threat indicating that there may be as many as twenty pipe bombs near the El Paso Zoo.

This is an active situation and you are advised to avoid the area.