Saturday, August 13, 2016

New Mexico police officer shot, killed during traffic stop

Via comment by Anonymous on NC: Raleigh CRABTREE VALLEY MALL SHOOTING
"I suppose you heard about the policeman who was killed in New Mexico. The killer had killed before and was released from prison after serving two years. The judge who released this born killer is just as responsible and should go to prison.

It used to be when one committed murder, fifty years was the sentence or life."


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In this Oct. 31, 2013 photo released by Dona Ana County Sheriff shows officer Jose Chavez at his graduation ceremony from our Law Enforcement Academy in Las Cruces, N.M. Hatch Police Officer Jose Chavez, 33, was gunned down during a traffic stop Friday, Aug. 12, 2016. Chavez was shot in the neck and airlifted to University Medical Center in El Paso, Texas, where he later died. Authorities don't yet know why a New Mexico police officer in a small village famous for its green chile and not much more pulled over two Ohio murder suspects before being gunned down. (Dona Ana County Sheriff via AP)

Authorities don't yet know why a New Mexico police officer in a small village famous for its green chile and not much more pulled over two Ohio murder suspects before being gunned down.

But the daytime encounter with Jesse Hanes and James Nelson on Friday turned out to be deadly for one of the eight police officers in Hatch, 190 miles south of Albuquerque.

Officer Jose Chavez, 33, was shot dead at a convenience store in front of a fellow officer who had just arrived, authorities said.

The suspected shooter is Hanes, 38, who along with Nelson was wanted in Ohio in the July 25 shooting death of a 62-year-old man just outside Chillicothe, about 60 miles south of Columbus.

4 comments:

  1. Godspeed Officer Chavez, RIP..

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  2. 50 years no parole is the sentence I think should be handed down upon the first violent felony conviction. Nobody does a violent felony as their first crime. Maybe their twentieth. Anyone convicted of a violent felony has CHOSEN this lifestyle.

    - Charlie

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