PREWITT, N.M. (AP) — The president of the Navajo Nation says the tribe and the U.S. was mourning with the family of a 27-year-old officer who was shot and later died of his injuries.
Tribal President Russell Begaye says he went to a New Mexico hospital to be with the family of Officer Houston James Largo, who died hours after he was wounded Sunday while responding to a domestic violence call.
The FBI says a suspect has been taken into custody.
A statement from Begaye called for support of officers protecting the nation’s largest American Indian tribe, saying their lives are precious because they protect others.
Begaye says Largo was from Thoreau, New Mexico, and had served for 4½ years. An FBI spokesman in Albuquerque says Largo had five years of service. There was no way to immediately reconcile the different numbers.