AN OFFICER INVOLVED SHOOTING IN SANTA FE COUNTY. STATE POLICE CHIEF PETE KASSETAS TELLS US IT STARTED ABOUT 1:30 TUESDAY MORNING WHEN A SANDOVAL COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPUTY NOTICED A RED PICKUP TRAVELING SPEEDING ON I-25 NORTHBOUND NEAR TRAMWAY. THE DRIVER REFUSED TO STOP FOR THE DEPUTY AND A CAR CHASE ENSUED AT OVER 100 MILES AN HOUR.
THE PICKUP DRIVER WENT BACK AND FORTH IN THE NORTH AND SOUTHBOUND LANES OF I-25 AT TIME. KASSETAS SAYS HE EVENTUALLY CROSSED INTO SANTA FE COUNTY, WHERE POLICE SPIKED THE ROAD TO FORCE HIM TO STOP. KASSETAS SAYS THE DRIVER EVADED THE SPIKE STRIPS BUT HIS VEHICLE WAS FINALLY DISABLED AT CERRILLOS ROAD. THE DRIVER THEN GOT OUT OF THE TRUCK AND RAN ON FOOT. SHOT WERE FIRED AND HE WAS HIT AND KILLED.
NO NAMES RELEASED YET AND NO WORD ON WHICH LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FIRED THE FATAL SHOT.
