New Mexico police fatally shot a man Wednesday night after approaching the wrong home during a domestic violence call.
"It’s a terrible event, and I’m heartbroken by it," the police chief of Farmington said after a 52-year-old man was killed in the incident late Wednesday.Police in Farmington, New Mexico, fatally shot a man Wednesday night after approaching the wrong home during a domestic violence call, in an incident that the police chief called"unbelievably tragic."
“Mr. Dotson was not the subject of the call that our officers were responding to, and this ending is just unbelievably tragic,” Hebbe said. “I’m extremely sorry that we’re in this position. We’ll find more facts as we go through the investigation.” Body camera footage showed that as the officers backed away from the home, Dotson"opened the screen door armed with a handgun,” state police said.Dotson’s wife then fired from the doorway, officers shot back, and she dropped the gun when she realized they were police, state police said. She was not hurt.
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