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Alderete, Ike

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Alderete, Ike

August 6, 2026

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Isaas “Ike” Alderete, a prominent El Paso political leader, longtime clerk of the district court, and later real estate and brokerage businessman, was killed on June 24, 1918, by a stray bullet during a shooting on South El Paso Street. The gunfire began when Anicleto Vargas, reportedly under the…

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