“It was awful. This was a peaceful call to action. We were there to celebrate the fact that the statue was not going up.”
Chaos erupted Thursday as a gunshot rang out during a protest in northern New Mexico where officials had planned to install a statue of Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate, an event that county officials had already postponed anticipating that tempers would flare.
Video captured by onlookers showed the man jumping a short wall and heading toward the crowd as others grabbed him.That’s when he pulled a gun from his waistband and fired a single shot before running off. Screaming ensued. First responders attend to a man who was shot at a rally outside the Rio Arriba County building in Espanola, New Mexico on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023.“Once again, the saddest part about this is we have another incident of gun violence,” county Sheriff Billy Merrifield said at a brief news conference.
A dispatcher who wasn’t authorized to release any information said additional details were expected to be released later Thursday night or Friday. The shooting happened on the day the New Mexico Department of Health released a report on gunshot victims treated at New Mexico’s hospitals. Gunshot victims transferred from emergency departments to operating rooms increased by 61% over the same time frame.
Oñate, who arrived in present-day New Mexico in 1598, is celebrated as a cultural father figure in communities along the Upper Rio Grande that trace their ancestry to Spanish settlers. But he is also reviled for his brutality.
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