PREWITT, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say a woman who found a Navajo Nation police officer shot along a county road used his radio to call for help.
McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy Roberta Jaramillo says Navajo police, sheriff’s deputies and officers with New Mexico State Police descended upon the scene after the call went out over the weekend that Navajo Officer Houston James Largo had been shot.
The shooting happened north of the small community of Prewitt in western New Mexico. Largo was flown to an Albuquerque hospital, where he died Sunday.
Jaramillo says authorities quickly identified a suspect. When dawn broke, tracks and other clues helped lead them to the suspect, who was taken into custody.
Preliminary reports indicate Largo was shot after he encountered two people in a vehicle along the county road while responding to a domestic violence report.
Authorities did not immediately release any information about the suspect, the circumstances of the arrest or what led to the shooting.