ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico State College student-athlete was concerned within the deadly capturing of a scholar from the College of New Mexico hours earlier than the scheduled tipoff of a males’s basketball recreation between the rival faculties that was later postponed, authorities mentioned Sunday.
State police mentioned the 19-year-old College of New Mexico scholar was declared useless on the scene of the capturing round 3 a.m. Saturday following a shootout outdoors a dormitory at UNM’s Albuquerque campus. The 21-year-old student-athlete from New Mexico State was wounded within the shootout and was listed in secure situation at a hospital.
New Mexico State College Chancellor Dan E. Arvizu confirmed Sunday that “one in every of our scholar athletes is now within the hospital following an altercation on the UNM campus.
“We additionally know that one other particular person has misplaced their life following that altercation… A few of our athletics personnel stayed behind in Albuquerque to be with our scholar athlete,” Arvizu added in a letter to college students, dad and mom, workers, alumni and followers. “NMSU personnel have been involved with investigators and have been cooperating with legislation enforcement all through.”
Arvizu did not determine the student-athlete and mentioned “extra circumstances surrounding this incident are nonetheless being investigated” and it is essential that “nobody rush to judgment till all of the information are made accessible.”
Police mentioned the 2 males had an altercation that led to an alternate of gunfire, which was being investigated as a murder. How and why they crossed paths remained unclear Sunday.
Police mentioned the title of the scholar who died was being withheld till family could possibly be notified, and authorities have been looking for witnesses to the incident.
The sold-out recreation between the New Mexico State Aggies and New Mexico Lobos was postponed by officers from each faculties within the wake of the deadly capturing.
Officer Ray Wilson, a New Mexico State Police spokesman, mentioned officers stopped the Aggies’ group bus “as a part of the continued investigation into the murder” because the car headed again to Las Cruces on Saturday afternoon.
The bus was later launched with out anybody aboard being detained, Wilson mentioned.
“The complete Lobo group is shaken by this incident and we mourn the dying of one in every of our college students and the accidents sustained by one other particular person,” College of New Mexico President Garnett Stokes mentioned in an announcement. “I can not specific how deeply saddened I’m by this tragedy on so many ranges.”
The deadly capturing got here six days after a former College of Virginia soccer participant allegedly killed three Cavaliers soccer gamers and wounded two different college students on the Charlottesville campus earlier than being arrested.
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