Posted on 03/19/2024 1:04:25 PM PDT by CedarDave
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A 48-hour manhunt for the suspect who reportedly shot and killed New Mexico State Police Officer Justin Hare near Tucumcari is now over.
Bernalillo County deputies arrested Jaremy Smith Sunday morning in Albuquerque after a shootout in a neighborhood.
Right now, Smith is still recovering at UNM hospital. Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office Chief John Allen confirmed his deputies shot Smith during that shootout Sunday morning.
It’s not exactly clear where he was shot or how many times, but BCSO officials said he suffered non-life threatening injuries.
The shootout happened in one woman’s backyard, and she caught the takedown on camera.
A BCSO spokesperson says Smith did have a gun on him during the incident, but they have not confirmed if Smith fired at deputies.
It’s also not clear if it’s the same gun used in Hare’s killing. The spokesperson says the department is still interviewing the deputies involved.
“We took someone that was very dangerous to the public, all of our communities, into custody. And now we can move forward with the investigation,” said Allen.
Once Smith recovers, he will be formally arrested, and it’s likely he’ll be facing a long list of charges.
Potentially including federal and state charges both here in New Mexico and in South Carolina — where it appears all of this began.
Police revealed the white BMW found at that crime scene was stolen from a South Carolina paramedic, Phonesia Machado-Fore.
She was reported missing last Thursday, and her body was found over the weekend after Hare’s killing.
State police leaders revealed Smith has an extensive criminal history. He’s a known felon who potentially crossed state lines with a firearm, and that could warrant federal charges.
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I guess the concept of keeping a low profile when you're on the lam was too much for him to handle.
Oh wait. Yogi explained it to me.
Oh yea plus those federal gun charges are really worrisome.
I am sure they well add a lot to a couple life sentences.
Why was this long-term offender out on the loose?
What is it going to take for State legislatures to require career criminals to be tried promptly and serve their sentences?
Doing that would make the demographic composition of prison populations even more ... ahh ... demonstrative.
Yogi is tired today, call scott adams.
He wasn’t shot in the right place often enough.
I hope he was hit in the crotch, several times.
Send him to SC. New Mexico communist demonrats ended the death penalty. The SC murder was him committing a robbery also when he took her car. Chances aren’t good, but at least in SC there is a chance of death. None for Fed charges. None in NM.
And if SC drops the ball on death, then send him to NM for trial and a sequential sentence.
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