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Albuquerque Police Department were at the Tewa Motor Lodge on Central Ave. helping City of Albuquerque Code Enforcement to remove trespassers and relocate residents from the location. APD was detaining a group of “unruly” people when one became unruly and handcuffed them. Police engaged in some sort of altercation or attack on a handcuffed man and ended up shooting and killing him. Bystanders state that he was cuffed and unarmed when killed.

https://abqraw.com/post/update-apd-says-man-was-handcuffed-when-shot-by-officers-in-latest-police-shooting/

ouie Archuleta was fleeing from police, crashed his vehicle, then emerged while allegedly holding a gun. Police shot and killed him. Police allegedly chased him for various charges, such as receiving stolen property and abandonment of a child. Police did not present any charges that would warrant life-threatening chase.

https://www.koat.com/article/new-mexico-suspect-dead-police-shooting-roswell/62615924

https://www.rdrnews.com/news/local/fleeing-man-dies-after-being-shot-at-by-multiple-officers/article_02c55c46-8b5a-11ef-a148-138d1fd96256.html

Albuquerque police were sent to Central and Elizabeth in Albuquerque in a mobile home park for domestic disturbance. They encountered Matthew Sanchez with a gun coming from a mobile home and shot and killed him.

https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/apd-officer-shot-suspect-dead-in-overnight-shooting/

Roswell PD stopped a driver who had been towing a second vehicle by the Chaves County Metro Narcotics Task Force. The man ran away and police chased and shot and killed him, alleging that he had a gun. An officer rushing to the scene to assist as backup was involved in a crash.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ5fi2gSLoM

https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/roswell-officer-shoots-fleeing-armed-suspect-police-say/

Valencia deputies were called to the 100 block of Ladera Road in Los Lunas for a man arguing with neighbors and firing a gun. The officers were not able to resolve this and returned multiple times. During their last visit, they saw the quarrelsome man point guns at his neighbor, Michael Gabaldon who was allegedly defending himself on his property. Police shot and killed Gabaldon, stating he had a gun. Neighbors and his family in unison said that Gabaldon had been a “very good” person and the other neighbor was constantly threatening everyone in the neighborhood. Police were reportedly aware of this because there had allegedly been a number of similar previous incident involving this neighbor. Michael Gabaldon had been a former sheriff's deputy.

https://www.koat.com/article/valencia-county-sheriffs-deputies-involved-in-shooting-incident/62445191

https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/1-dead-in-shooting-involving-valencia-county-sheriffs-office/

Santa Fe Police were sent to the 100 block of La Placita Circle for a domestic disturbance. They encountered Stephanie “Gracen” Coon with a box cutter. Police shot and killed him.

https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/one-dead-after-santa-fe-officer-involved-shooting-nmsp-reports/

https://www.facebook.com/Santafepolice/posts/pfbid02WBXoHMyXTprR4YwrYPPpZqLmfsaGiMXDPdHm38226MwjnLLHbPqVnt59izqZkSBfl?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZWrGbzF_qrqwcj2A2pmIlKinaOvhC2VCdhT8CB8G-cb26Rj88666dVhgYbb1hAwhk6VRIKMUj8o1qrkL5P2iUBfQENuCywyv_T3E_hMw0Sjn6fEfxtSTIA5hsRBYv

Albuquerque police received a call about a domestic violence situation. They arrived, found an armed man, and called SWAT. Police shot and killed him under undisclosed circumstances.

https://www.koat.com/article/albuquerque-police-swat-comanche-standoff/62179914

Wallace Gonzalez was traffic–stopped in Las Cruces. The officer allegedly saw several guns on his dashboard. An unknown exchange took place and Wallace Gonzales drove away. The officer chased him into the White Sands Mall parking lot in Alamogordo. SWAT arrived and escalated a standoff lasting several hours which ended in a shootout with him. He was found dead in his truck.

https://www.ktsm.com/news/nmsp-man-dead-after-officer-involved-shooting-involving-lcpd/

Albuquerque PD were called to a Family Dollar on Broadway for a shoplifting incident. Police foot chased a man, claim that he flashed a gun at them and yelled that he was not going back to jail, and they shot and killed him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvkgYYc-54g

Police came upon a man and woman at Forest Road 400 after a report of domestic violence. Cibola county deputies stated that a woman fled and later told them that Albert Morgan had choked her. When officers tried to talk to Morgan, he was hostile and pulled a gun, eventually aiming it at police who shot and killed him.

https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/deputy-involved-shooting-kills-one-in-cibola-county/

https://www.krqe.com/news/crime/video-suspect-shoots-at-deputies-investigating-domestic-violence-call-in-cibola-county/

Colfax County deputies attempted to traffic-stop a vehicle. The vehicle continued driving. Police escalated a chase. The vehicle stopped and allegedly reversed into a patrol car. Police shot and killed the driver, Richter Cutchie.

https://www.koat.com/article/new-mexico-police-shooting-colfax-county/61831824

Albuquerque SWAT/Multi-Agency Task Force attempted to arrest a man and besieged a residence. The man apparently died by suicide under police duress.

https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerque-metro/law-enforcement-investigates-after-suspect-dies-during-swat-standoff/

A Bernalillo deputy allegedly tried to stop a vehicle that was driving erratically. The vehicle did not stop and the officer escalated a chase. The deputy allegedly hit the rear of the fleeing vehicle, catapulting it into a wall, killing the driver. Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office and Albuquerque Police Department had a public argument, each other of inaccuracies in reporting how this fatal crash actually happened.

https://www.abqjournal.com/news/driver-killed-after-bernalillo-deputy-crashes-into-car-in-north-valley/article_a811ba5c-54df-11ef-932d-dbb69fd9c6ba.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkQg3NciLWo

Albuquerque PD hunted a vehicle into the path of an SUV, killing both occupants of the SUV.

https://www.abqjournal.com/news/man-charged-with-vehicular-homicide-after-2-die-in-crash-following-police-chase-in-se/article_1d6951f6-4537-11ef-95ff-0bfcd4da9576.html

Albuquerque PD hunted a vehicle into the path of an SUV, killing both occupants of the SUV.

https://www.abqjournal.com/news/man-charged-with-vehicular-homicide-after-2-die-in-crash-following-police-chase-in-se/article_1d6951f6-4537-11ef-95ff-0bfcd4da9576.html

Otero County deputies found a teenager walking on the median of a highway with an airsoft gun replica. Police allege he pointed it at them. They shot and killed him. He was found to have been hit by 15 bullets on autopsy.

https://www.ktsm.com/news/teen-holding-airsoft-gun-dead-in-officer-involved-shooting/

https://ladailypost.com/nmsp-investigates-officer-involved-shooting-in-otero-county/

https://kvia.com/news/new-mexico/2024/06/27/17-year-old-holding-air-soft-gun-shot-dead-by-deputy-new-mexico-state-police-say/

https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/nmsp-otero-county-deputy-shoots-and-kills-teen-with-gun/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/teen-holding-airsoft-gun-dead-181208237.html

https://patch.com/new-hampshire/concord-nh/man-gun-dies-after-officer-involved-shooting-pm-patch-nh

https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/nmsp-otero-county-sheriffs-deputy-shoots-and-kills-teen-with-airsoft-gun-officer-involved-shooting-new-mexico-state-police-elijah-hadley

https://www.koat.com/article/video-shows-moments-before-after-ocso-shooting-koat-deputy-elijah-hadley/61584666

Police spotted a stolen vehicle and escalated a chase, placed spike strips that caused a man and woman to flee from the vehicle and continue in a truck. Police chased them to 98th and I-40 where the man held the woman hostage. After a one-hour standoff, a police sniper killed him. It turned out that the gun was only a BB gun and Meador had been unarmed.

Officer Zachary Herbst who killed Dale Meador had also previously killed Emmanuel Campos, 20, on August 16, 2023.

https://www.koat.com/article/albuquerque-deadly-police-shooting/61191991

https://www.yahoo.com/news/apd-swat-officer-shoots-kills-030100548.html

https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerque-metro/albuquerque-police-to-release-details-on-fatal-officer-involved-shooting-2/

https://www.krqe.com/news/crime/video-car-chase-turns-into-hostage-situation-albuquerque-police-kill-suspect/

Albuquerque PD and SWAT try to arrest Michael Christopher Goodhart on several unspecified warrants. He fled into a tunnel with a female. Police alleged that he had a gun. SWAT arrived, deployed, drones and helicopter and fired Les lethal bullets. They finally shot and killed him.

https://www.abqjournal.com/news/apd-swat-officer-shoots-kills-man-after-chase-into-west-side-tunnel/article_2c180840-2f49-11ef-b780-37c40949c0be.html

https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/crime/2024/06/21/las-cruces-man-killed-by-doa-ana-deputy-reported-being-in-crisis/74169879007/

Police investigated a stolen vehicle at a drug store. Driver Jeffrey Martinez allegedly tried to escape and hit a vehicle and an officer. Police shot and killed him.

https://www.koat.com/article/new-mexico-police-shooting-officer-hit-vehicle-espanola/61062410

Roswell PD engaged in a shootout under unknown circumstances and shot and killed a man.

https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/suspect-dead-and-officer-injured-in-roswell-police-shooting/

The Quay County Sheriff’s Office shot and killed Aubrey Osteen when he allegedly pointed a gun at his home health nurse.

https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/nmsp-suspect-dead-following-sheriffs-office-shooting-near-tucumcari/

https://abc7amarillo.com/news/local/suspect-killed-by-quay-county-sheriffs-office-new-mexico-state-police-investigating-tucumcari

A Dona Ana County deputy was called on a call for an unknown person on Oasis drive. The deputy realized the man had an open warrant and tried to arrest him. The man resisted and the deputy allegedly tasered him, causing him to seize up. The man took the taser away from the attacking deputy. The deputy then shot and killed him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqpBCB5VBso

https://www.lascrucesbulletin.com/stories/sheriff-shuts-down-questions-provides-video-after-deputy-kills-chaparral-man,79668

Syracuse PD and Onondaga deputies chased a driver for failed traffic stop. The officers tracked the car and caught up with it in front of a home. They approached the car and 2 officers were shot and killed. The man whom they had engaged in a shootout with was also shot and killed.

https://nypost.com/2024/04/15/us-news/syracuse-cop-and-onondaga-sheriffs-deputy-shot-and-killed-in-salina/

https://www.syracuse.com/crime/2024/04/shooter-idd-in-killing-of-syracuse-officer-and-onondaga-county-deputy.html

Albuquerque PD tried to arrest a man for open warrants in the Walmart parking lot at 2266 Wyoming Boulevard NE. The man reportedly pushed past an officer with a rifle and tried to get in the store past them. Police engaged him in a physical altercation. The man grabbed the AR-15 and wrestled with the officer over control, discharging several rounds at Walmart. He was shot and killed by police.

https://www.koat.com/article/deadly-albuquerque-police-shooting-walmart-wyoming/60470270

A Roswell PD officer shot and killed someone. No other details have been released at this time.

https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/nmsp-suspect-dead-in-roswell-police-shooting/

Police chased Mariah Voigt into a shed because they believed she was driving a stolen car. When she emerged, they shot and killed her. Police mistook the cell phone in the unarmed woman’s hand for a weapon.

https://www.koat.com/article/details-tuesdays-officer-involved-shooting-explained/60258726

ACLU Statement on this shooting:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/407711431860869

Police were engaged in an “altercation” with Francisco Hernandez and went to get a warrant for it. When they found Francisco Hernandez, he fled by car, crashed into a tree and fled on foot. Police allege he had a gun and they shot and killed him. Hernandez only had a BB gun.

https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerque-metro/suspect-dead-after-albuquerque-officer-involved-shooting-nm-state-police-reports/

Los Lunas police were sent on domestic disturbance call. It is unknown what transpired but police brought SWAT and shot and killed Lucas Barros.

https://www.koat.com/article/los-lunas-police-shooting-vista-drive/46872668

https://www.koat.com/article/deadly-shooting-los-lunas-police/46873075

https://news-bulletin.com/suspect-dead-in-officer-involved-shooting-in-los-lunas/

Los Lunas PD and SWAT appeared at a domestic violence call and shot and killed a man.

https://www.koat.com/article/deadly-shooting-los-lunas-police/46873075

Officer Jonah Hernandez was called to a trespassing situation, encountered a 29-year-old man who stabbed him to death. The man was shot and killed by police.

https://www.wafb.com/2024/02/12/new-mexico-officer-killed-stabbing-before-suspect-is-shot-killed-by-witness-police-say/

https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/crime/2024/02/11/las-cruces-police-department-officer-killed-in-the-line-of-duty/72566447007/

New Mexico State Police arrived on Harris Drive to arrest Robert Geyer. Geyer committed suicide under police duress when approached. A dead body was allegedly found under the house and six people in the home were arrested for drug possession.

https://www.taosnews.com/public-safety/new-mexico-state-police-discover-body-arrest-six-while-searching-taos-residence/article_3c22e758-c21d-11ee-86a5-c75cbfba1418.html

https://www.taosnews.com/public-safety/harris-drive-body-identified/article_9f1fb108-cc16-11ee-91e3-0793eb6b7676.html

Joseph Baca may have been intoxicated when he attacked people at a gas station, tried to carjack two vehicles, threw his gun and rocks around. Police arrived and shot and killed him.

https://www.koat.com/article/overnight-shooting-involving-albuquerque-police-officers/46533085

https://www.abqraw.com/post/deadly-officer-involved-shooting-happens-overnight

https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerque-metro/apd-to-release-details-on-fatal-officer-involved-shooting/

Albuquerque Police organized a militarized raid to arrest an unnamed person for undisclosed reasons and shot and killed him in the process. No more information was released at this time.

https://www.abqraw.com/post/man-kills-himself-during-swat-standoff-last-night

A pedestrian was crossing Riverside Drive when hit and killed by an officer at 6 a.m. on December 30, 2023.

https://www.krqe.com/video/nmdot-opens-online-voting-to-name-12-snowplows/9291286/

A suicidal man in mental health crisis appeared at a fire station, sat in a vehicle with a gun and said he wanted to kill himself. Bernalillo County deputies took up chase until he crashed at 4th Street. They sent drones and K9s after him. SWAT shot and killed him.

https://www.koat.com/article/shelter-in-place-issued-in-los-ranchos/45814694

Albuquerque PD tried to arrest a man they felt was involved in some prior robberies. They fired “nonlethal methods” at him, apparently a taser and allege he had a gun. They shot and killed him during arrest.

https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/apd-robbery-suspect-shot-killed-by-officer-at-apartment-complex/

https://www.koat.com/article/police-in-shooting-albuquerque-apartment-complex/46068681#

Bodycam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YchLw2CjcxA

Chaves County deputies were chasing a vehicle at high speed until it collided with a semi-truck and the driver died. Police did not disclose why they undertook this dangerous hunt.

Photo Credit: Chaves County FB page

https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/roswell-pursuit-ends-in-fatal-crash/

A person locked themselves into a trailer when Navajo Nation Police arrived to investigate a “shots fired” call. Police called SWAT which besieged the trailer for hours until flames were seen coming out of it after police fired flashbangs and apparently set the RV on fire. The man emerged from the trailer and allegedly had a gun. Police shot and killed him.

https://navajotimes.com/reznews/suspect-dead-after-shots-fired-in-shiprock/

A Las Cruces patrol officer was on a “proactive bicycle patrol” just before 5 a.m. on 10/03/2023 near the 1300 block of Burley Court when he “made contact “with a woman who was driving a black 2006 Mitsubishi Lancer.

In the bodycam footage linked below, the officer is seen approaching the parked vehicle in a well-lighted parking lot in which Teresa Gomez and a male sat. The officer is immediately rude, curses and threatens Gomez, demands to know her "fucking name", threatens and curses at her throughout, asks questions and does not allow her to answer. Ms. Gomez is polite throughout the lengthy ordeal of being berated, threatened and cursed at in the bodycam footage. The officer then begins to threaten her passenger, insists that he knows the man is not supposed to be at that location, something he had accused Ms. Gomez of before who did not seem to know what the officer was referring to. Ms, Gomez is very nonconfrontational, remains polite throughout the exchange even when she is threatened and insulted by the officer. When the officer begins his verbal assault barrage against the passenger, Ms. Gomez, without saying a word, starts the car and backs out of the parking space.

The officer had made threats that they were not supposed to be there, would be arrested if they merely replied to him and she was attempting to leave the parking lot in a civil manner away from the officer who was vbisibly looking for a victim. When she backs away from the parking lot to escape the confrontation, the officer fires several shots at her while driving, killing her. She had been polite, cooperative, unarmed and entirely appropriate and seemed to only want to escape the abuse when she was clearly told that the officer prohibited them from being parked in the area.

https://cbs4local.com/newsletter-daily/las-cruces-police-hold-press-conference-after-woman-dies-after-officer-involved-shooting-teresa-gomez-burley-court-new-mexico

https://www.ktsm.com/news/woman-dies-after-officer-involved-shooting-in-las-cruces/

Torrance County deputies received a call that an adult female was in a trailer where she had been abused. When deputies arrived, they pressured him with “announcements” to come out. Soon, smoke and flames were emanating from the trailer. Police found charred human remains, presumably of the man, in the trailer. Police did not publicly identify him.

https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/edgewood-kidnapping-suspect-dies-in-fire/