A man was shot on Thursday in New Mexico on the site where authorities planned to reinstall a statue of a Spanish conquistador who brutally colonized the U.S. state, a witness and police reported, adding a suspect was in custody.
The shooting took place around noon at the Rio Arriba County building in Espanola after a scuffle between protesters and a counter protestor, said Mateo Peixinho, an organizer at the protest against the statue.
A Native American man from Seattle, Washington, was shot, according to Peixinho. The victim was in stable condition after being airlifted to University of New Mexico hospital, Albuquerque where he was having a bullet removed from his chest, said Christina Castro an organizer at the rally opposing the statue.halted
Peixinho said he spoke to Martinez, the alleged shooter, before the incident and he said the man was unhappy authorities had not reinstalled the statue.
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