US shooting in New Mexico, three killed, two police officers injured, suspect dead

Farmington: At least three people were killed and several others were injured, including two police officers, in a shooting by law enforcement in a northwestern New Mexico community on Monday (local time), officials said. went and killed the suspect.

“Multiple civilian victims,” ​​Farmington police reported via Facebook, adding that a suspect was “encountered and killed at the scene.” Meanwhile, schools across the city were closed following the shooting in Farmington, police said.

The firing was reported just after 11 am. In the area of ​​Brookside Park, and all schools in the city were put on what officials called a “preventive lockdown”. There was emergency lockdown in three nearby schools.

The city’s police department said in a Facebook post that at least three members of the public were killed and that officers confronted and killed a suspect at the scene. It also said that two officers, including itself and a state police officer, were injured and in stable condition at the San Juan Regional Medical Center.

Police did not release the names of those killed or injured, nor did they give details of the cause of the firing. “The identity of the suspect is unknown and there are no other known threats at this time,” police said, adding city, San Juan County and state police were involved.

Megan Mitchell, an officer with the San Juan County Sheriff’s Office, called the incident “an open and active ongoing investigation.” Mitchell said he did not immediately have more information. Federal agents from Phoenix were led to Farmington by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives via Twitter.

Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham said in a statement that she was praying for the families of the victims and that the incident was “another reminder of how gun violence destroys lives every day in our state and across our country.”