Authorities are trying to determine what led to Monday’s attack in Farmington, New Mexico, where an 18-year-old man fired a gun while meandering through the neighborhood and struck targets apparently picked at random, including cars, homes and passersby.
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN, KEN RITTER and MORGAN LEEInvestigators work along a residential street following a deadly shooting Monday, May 15, 2023, in Farmington, N.M. Authorities said an 18-year-old opened fire in the northwestern New Mexico community, killing multiple people and injuring others, before law enforcement fatally shot the suspect. Investigators work along a residential street following a deadly shooting Monday, May 15, 2023, in Farmington, N.M.
The attacker, whose name hadn’t been released as of Tuesday morning, carried at least three weapons, including an AR-style rifle, according to police. Authorities also hadn’t identified the dead or six wounded, including two police officers who were treated at a hospital. Police were expected to release further details about the case at a Tuesday afternoon news conference.
It was “honestly one of the most horrific and difficult days that Farmington has ever had as a community,” he said. Officers began receiving reports of gunshots at about 10:57 a.m. and the first one arrived at the scene at 11:02 a.m., Hebbe said. Three minutes later, the gunman had been killed. Robledo jumped a fence to get in through the back door. Out front, he found an older woman in the street who had been wounded while driving by. She appeared to have fallen out of her car, which kept rolling without her, he said.
Nick Akins, a middle school teacher who lives in the area where the attack occurred, said it’s a great place to live, with a mix of homes, short-term rental apartments and churches.
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