AN OFFICER INVOLVED SHOOTING IN ALBUQUERQUE ON WEDNESDAY KILLS A ROBBERY SUSPECT RUNNING FROM POLICE. IT WAS AROUND 4:30 PM WHEN 911 GOT A CALL ABOUT A POSSIBLE ROBBERY NEAR SAN MATEO AND COMANCHE. WHEN OFFICERS ARRIVED, THEY SPOTTED A MALE WHO LOOKED LIKE THE DESCRIBED ROBBER IN THE ARROYO.
THE OFFICERS TRIED TO MAKE CONTACT WITH HIM BUT THE MALE REFUSED TO OBEY THEIR COMMANDS AND RAN EAST IN THE ARROYO, THEN INTO A NEIGHBORHOOD. SHOTS WERE HEARD BEING FIRED AND APD THEN GOT A CALL THAT A MALE HAD SHOT THE DOG OF ONE OF THE RESIDENTS THERE. OFFICERS DID FIND THE SUSPECT BUT FIRED SHOTS AND KILLED HIM.
THE MALE HASN’T BEEN IDENTIFIED YET.
