A quiet afternoon near Salopek Park in Las Cruces was disrupted by gunfire on Thursday, resulting in two people being injured. The Las Cruces Police reported on their social media that the shooting occurred around 4:30 p.m. Alongside local resistance, which has long expressed concerns about growing violence, emergency services were quick to respond to the shots fired.
Following the incident, one victim was transported by ground to a local hospital, and another victim was in such a critical state that they needed to be airlifted to a hospital in El Paso, said the police. While details on their conditions were not immediately available, the urgency of the medical response hints at the gravity of their injuries.
In a statement obtained by SFist, the Las Cruces Police social media post affirmed that "Police have no information on their conditions" regarding the two individuals injured in the shooting. Authorities continue their investigation into the incident, and no suspects have been named at this time.
The quiet residential area, having witnessed an increasingly unsettling pattern of such events, now becomes the backdrop to another chapter of violence that shakes the community. The local community, which has become an unwitting witness to the shooting, is left to reckon with the reverberating echoes of the incident. Police are calling on anyone with information about the shooting to step forward and help bring clarity to the chaos that unfolded near Salopek Park.
