A POLICE INVOLVED SHOOTING IN VALENCIA COUNTY IS UNDER INVESTIGATION BY STATE POLICE. STATE POLICE SERGEANT DAMYAN BROWN SAYS IT STARTED WITH BELEN POLICE PURSUING A VEHICLE THEY BELIEVE HAD STOLEN LICENSE PLATES THAT REFUSED TO PULL OVER. A CAR CHASE ENSUED BUT WAS EVENTUALLY CANCELLED BY THE OFFICERS.
SERGEANT BROWN SAYS LOS LUNAS POLICE OFFICERS PICKED UP THE MATTER AFTER NOTING THE SAME VEHICLE IN THE PARKING LOT OF THE HILLTOP TERRACE APARTMENTS IN LOS LUNAS LATER SUNDAY. BROWN SAYS WHEN THEY APPROACHED A MAN, THEY REALIZED HE WAS ARMED WITH SOME KIND OF LONG GUN, OR RIFLE.
BROWN TELLS 770 KKOB THE OFFICERS TOLD THE MAN TO PUT THE WEAPON DOWN, BUT THE MAN REFUSED. THEN, AT ONE POINT, BROWN SAYS THE MAN RAISED THE RIFLE TOWARD THE OFFICERS AND POINTED IT AT THEM. SHOTS WERE FIRE BY THE OFFICERS AND THE MAN WAS HIT SEVERAL TIME.
THE UNIDENTIFIED SUSPECT WAS TAKEN TO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, WHERE HE UNDERWENT SURGERY. NO WORD ON HIS CONDITION.
