He was a two-year veteran and leaves behind a wife and two kids.
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A police officer in New Mexico was killed in a shooting at a traffic stop on Friday, according to multiple reports.
Chavez died as a result of his injuries. Dispatch reported the time of that call at 4:02 p.m.
Dona Ana County Sheriff’s deputies have taken over public safety duties in the village of Hatch following the fatal shooting of one of its eight officers.
The Associated Press reported that the officer had been struck in the neck.
Dona Ana County Sheriff Enrique “Kiki” Vigil said Chavez went through training at the department’s academy in 2013 and that he was considered one of their own.
The fugitives were traveling with another man who told officers he had been hitchhiking.
Hanes and Nelson are wanted in OH in the July 25 shooting death of a 62-year-old man just outside Chillicothe, about 60 miles south of Columbus. The other two suspects were captured before 7 p.m. after attempting to flee the scene.
The assisting officer reportedly returned fire toward the silver Lexus before it sped away on Franklin Avenue toward Interstate 25.
A bulletin issued afterward by the Ross County Sheriff’s Office in OH had said that Hanes and Nelson were believed to have fled the state and were armed and extremely unsafe.
The Lexus, Cox said, was coming from behind his vehicle and was “weaving around traffic”.
Police say two others were in the auto when Hanes shot Chavez before fleeing, carjacking a man at a rest stop, shooting him.
Deputies surrounded the Cruze while the driver briefly barricaded himself inside. His condition is also unknown.
Nonetheless, he stopped at a rest stop near Radium Springs, where one of the subjects on the vehicle carjacked a parked Chevrolet Cruze.
Authorities were able to deflate the vehicle’s tires with “stop sticks”, Jameson said, but the driver was able to turn the vehicle into a residence in the 23000 block of N.M. 185. “The suspect was unable to control that vehicle, and it crashed into a pile of wood and came to rest”, she said.
The investigation is ongoing, Jameson said in the statement. Deputies observed the driver was suffering from a gunshot wound to his thigh. He was transported to the hospital. And their identities were not immediately known. It was unclear if Nelson was involved in the carjacking, Jameson said.
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The suspect vehicle fled south on I-25 with the Hatch officer who was assisting in the initial traffic stop in chase, reportedly reaching speeds of over 100 miles per hour.
