El Paso Cty. Parents Upset at Sheriff’s Office

Two parents say they’re frustrated with the El Paso County Sheriff’s office for their slow response time this weekend.

They say their two sons were attacked at the Widefield Community Park Friday night. The boys say they were staying the night at a friend’s house when they snuck out and planned to meet others at the park and sell their clothes for a belt.

When the kids arrived, one boy says he was hit over the head with a rock, the other threatened with a knife and gun and had his cell phone stolen. They walked back to their friend’s house and called 911.

Delvin Elwell, father of the victim says, “It was a robbery. It was planned. The boy tried to shoot my son but he couldn’t get the safety off. He has a knife mark down his forearm.”

The Sheriff’s office says a deputy responded just after 12:40 a.m. Saturday morning. By then, parents had already left for home, the other to the hospital.

“After spending all night at Memorial Hospital’s emergency room and getting home at 6:40 a.m., my son and I came home and we waited until 7:15 and still no police had shown up to take our statements,” says Salina Desilets, the mother of one victim, claims she didn’t see a deputy at her house until 5 o’clock Saturday afternoon.

El Paso County Sheriff’s Office Public Information officer, Natalie Sosa, says the deputy reported talking to a victim’s father through Saturday night and the father claimed someone would call law enforcement when they returned from the hospital.

The incident is still under investigation.