I feel love for the first time and I know that is true Lady I just feel like I won't get you out of my mind Associated Press writer Terry Tang in Phoenix contributed.Lady hear me tonight 'cause my feeling is just so rightĪs we dance by the moonlight can't you see you're my daylight Lee reported from Santa Fe and Yamat reported from Las Vegas. Dowdy said relatives expressed concern about Wilson’s mental health when interviewed by police but that he didn’t have enough information at this time to further elaborate. New Mexico enacted a red-flag law in 2020 that can be used to seize guns from people who pose a danger to others or themselves. Lead pastor Matt Mizell talked about living in a “dark and broken world” but told the crowd there was still hope and asked God to provide them strength. Authorities were using metal detectors to search the grass in front of one of the churches along the street where gunfire erupted.Īs night approached Monday, dozens of people gathered at Hills Church, a few miles (kilometers) from the attack scene, to pray at the base of a tall metal cross. On Tuesday, orange circles of spray paint still marked the ground where police had collected evidence. “Obviously, elderly people - he didn’t have no sympathy for them.”ĭowntown Farmington, a short drive from the neighborhood, has undergone a transformation of sorts in recent years, with cafes and breweries cropping up alongside decades-old businesses that trade in Native American crafts from silver jewelry to wool weavings. I just thank God that nobody was outside in front,” he said. “We’ve been doing yard work all last week. Robledo’s own family car was perforated with bullets. “We were telling (the officer), ‘He’s down there.’ … The cop just went straight into action,” Robledo said. Neighbors directed a police officer toward the suspect. He and others began to administer first aid. “I went out to see because the lady was just lying in the road, and to figure just what the heck was going on,” Robledo said. She appeared to have fallen out of her car, which kept rolling without her, he said. Out front, he found an older woman in the street who had been wounded while driving by. Joseph Robledo said he jumped a fence to get in through the back door. “He was freaking out and I was like, ‘don’t hang up, don’t hang up!’” I called my husband and he could hear the gunshots over the phone,” she said. She said they were going to run out the back door until she heard a man curse right outside, so she quietly shut the door and hid with her daughter between the washing machine and dryer. Jolene Robledo said they had just finished breakfast when she heard “pop, pop, pop, pop,” which she first thought was a car backfiring. A bullet went through his daughter’s window, without hitting anyone. Joseph Robledo, a 32-year-old tree trimmer, said he rushed home after learning that his wife, Jolene, and their year-old daughter had sought shelter in the laundry room when gunshots rang out. Three minutes later, the gunman had been killed. and the first officer arrived at 11:02 a.m., police Chief Steve Hebbe said Monday in a video statement. Mayor Nate Duckett said Tuesday that the Farmington officer and state police officer were treated for their wounds and released from a hospital.Īuthorities began receiving reports of gunshots at 10:57 a.m. Two police officers were among the wounded.įour officers fired a total of 16 rounds at Wilson, including one of the wounded officers, said San Juan County Sheriff Shane Ferrari. Witnesses and police say Wilson walked through the neighborhood a short drive from downtown Farmington spraying bullets until police arrived within minutes and fatally shot him. She was well-loved and I’m still shocked over it,” said Strickler, who heard gunfire ring out on Monday before learning the circumstances of Voita’s death. Voita had worked as a nurse and was a devoted parishioner at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, said former state Rep. They say he opened fire Monday, killing Gwendolyn Schofield, her 73-year-old daughter, Melody Ivie, and 79-year-old Shirley Voita. Investigators were still trying to determine a motive for the attack by Beau Wilson, 18, in the Farmington neighborhood where he lived. (AP) - The gunman who killed three people and wounded six others as he fired randomly while roaming his northwestern New Mexico neighborhood was a local high school student and his victims include a 97-year-old woman and her daughter, police said Tuesday.
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