AN INVESTIGATIVE TASK FORCE IS NOW REVIEWING AN OFFICER INVOLVED SHOOTING FROM EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. NEW MEXICO STATE POLICE DEPUTY CHIEF ROBERT ESHON SAYS AN OFFICER PULLED OVER A VEHICLE FOR SPEEDING ON INTERSTATE 25 SOUTHBOUND NEAR AVENIDA CESAR CHAVEZ. HE SAYS THE OFFICER GOT INTO AN ALTERCATION WITH THE PASSENGER IN THE VEHICLE. SHOTS WERE FIRED DURING THE ALTERCATION, STRIKING THE OFFICER, WHO FIRED HIS WEAPON AS WELL. THE SUSPECT WAS HIT AND KILLED AT THE SCENE.
THE OFFICER WAS HIT IN THE LEG AND HAS BEEN TREATED AND RELEASED. . THE DRIVER WAS NOT IN THE VEHICLE AT THE TIME AND IS CURRENTLY NOT FACING ANY CHARGES POLICE SAY THEY LATER FOUND A HANDGUN IN THE CAR.
