WOMAN KILLED IN OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTING

 

AN OFFICER INVOLVED SHOOTING IN SANTA FE THURSDAY MORNING. STATE POLICE SPOKESMAN MANNY GUTIERREZ TELLS 770 KKOB A STATE COP SPOTTED A PERSON DRIVING ERRATICALLY ON CAMINO CARLOS REY NEAR CASITAS IN THE CENTER OF SANTA FE SHORTLY AFTER 1:00 AM AND TRIED TO PULL THE VEHICLE OVER …BUT THE DRIVER REFUSED TO STOP. A CAR CHASE THEN GOT UNDERWAY AND GUTIERREZ SAYS THE OFFICER ALERTED DISPATCH AT 1:19 AM THAT SHOTS HAD BEEN FIRED.

THERE WERE TWO OCCUPANTS IN THE VEHICLE: A FEMALE DRIVER AND A MALE PASSENGER. GUTIERREZ SAYS THE FEMALE IS DECEASED. THE MALE WAS NOT INJURED BUT WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AS A PRECAUTION.

GUTIERREZ SAYS JUST THE ONE STATE POLICE OFFICER WAS INVOLVED. NO WORD YET ON THE IDENTITIES OF THE WOMAN AND HER MALE PASSENGER … OR THE OFFICER.