NM hunting guide wounded in gunfight near border (TX-Mexico border)

The Albuquerque Journal ^ | January 9, 2017 | Lauren Villagran

[CedarDave]

Five miles north of the Mexican border on a remote West Texas ranch, a New Mexico hunting guide and his client were wounded over the weekend in an alleged gunfight that a family friend described as an attack by “illegal aliens” and an attempted kidnapping.

The Presidio County Sheriff’s Office appeared to question that account in a statement Monday, saying “there is no evidence to support allegations of ‘cross-border violence.'” A Border Patrol spokesman called the alleged incident “highly unusual for our part of the border.”

The following is an account of the events.

Hunting guide Walker Daugherty, 26, of Chloride, N.M. – a ranching community about three hours southwest of Albuquerque near the Gila National Forest – was guiding an exotic big game hunt near Candelaria, Texas, on the border when his party was allegedly attacked by unknown assailants.

Daugherty and his fiancée, another hunting guide and his wife were staying in a lodge at the Circle Dug Ranch. Edwin Roberts, the hunter, and his wife were asleep in a rented RV nearby when gunmen attempted to take the vehicle by force.

Daugherty was shot in the abdomen when he tried to stop the assailants from taking the RV with his clients inside, according to a statement issued by the Gila Livestock Growers Association that described the attack as a kidnapping attempt. Roberts, 59, was shot in the arm.

The RV was “riddled with bullet holes,” the statement said.

Daugherty and Roberts were taken to an El Paso hospital and were in stable condition Monday.

[CedarDave]

Quote from the article:

No one knows for sure what happened, and the people who do aren’t talking about it.

[CedarDave]

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[txrefugee]

The Presidio Co. Sheriff is the same one who did not think an autopsy was needed when Supreme Court Justice Scalia died with a pillow over his face at a remote West Texas hunting resort. He insists that these hunters were not attacked by Mexican bandits when all the evidence says they were, and they escaped back into Mexico. When AG Sessions begins investigating border crime in TX, Presidio Co. Is a good place to start.

[circlecity]

“there is no evidence to support allegations of ‘cross-border violence.'”

Except for two shot up hunters and an RV full of bullet holes.

[bgill]

unknown assailants

“there is no evidence to support allegations of ‘cross-border violence."

Yeah, keep covering it up. This wouldn't have happened if Obama hadn't rolled out the red carpet for illegals of ever description.

Remind me again who those FReepers are who have been against a wall for the past decade and more.

[grobdriver]

Remind me again who those FReepers are who have been against a wall

Not me, man.

Make it tall and top it with claymores.

[capt. norm]

"Chief Sheriff’s Deputy Joel Nunez responded to the scene. “We are still investigating details of the shooting,” Sheriff Danny Dominguez

Sounds like a pair of honest Irish cops ....totally disinterested *un-biased /sarc.

[Celtic Conservative]

And put forced- perspective paintings on it so they run right into it like Wile E. Coyote.

CC

[Big Red Badger]

Build The Wall !

[loungitude]

The Presidio County Sheriff’s Office appeared to question that account in a statement Monday, saying “there is no evidence to support allegations of ‘cross-border violence.’”

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Cross-border violence. Confirmed by the Sheriff’s Office.

[Scrambler Bob]

Cross-Border?

It all happened on one side.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

lied and damned lies coming from the idiots who are supposed to inform the public.

Nice Public “Safety” message!

[SanchoP]

I’m guessing the prime suspect is the rancher they screwed out of his lease.

[IYAS9YAS]

Sounds like a pair of honest Irish cops ....totally disinterested *un-biased /sarc.

Maybe, maybe not. Having a Spanish surname in the desert southwest does not automatically mean illegal, liberal, anti-American. There are a lot of hard-working, conservative, pro-American Americans in that group.

Kennedy is an Irish name full of taint to me, but I don't lump all Irish in with the Kennedys.

[T-Bone Texan]

Actually TOPPING the wall with claymores is a new and fascinating idea that may have merit!

[backwoods-engineer]

Irrelevant. The snowflake millennials will never go along with Congress funding a wall, because get this: the millennials think it walls them in!

[T-Bone Texan]

Ha ha, you said “taint” and “Kennedy” in the same sentence.

That’s apt.

[sheana]

You have to take his words literally. There was no cross border violence since they didn’t fire across the border. The violence was within our border.
See how easy?

[grobdriver]

Proximity fused.

They can come up to the wall (on the ground) all they want... but try and go over.

X(

[DH]

Presidio huh? No industry, no jobs, extreme welfare, very few “Gringo’s” and law enforcement is in bed with the criminals.

Nothing to see here folks.......kindly move along......