FARMINGTON, N.M. — At least three individuals have been lifeless and a number of others wounded Monday after a taking pictures in Farmington, police mentioned, and colleges citywide have been placed on lockdown.

“There are multiple civilian victims,” Farmington police reported through Facebook, including that one suspect “was confronted and killed on scene.”

Two officers have been shot together with a member of the town police and one with the New Mexico State Police, the message mentioned. Both have been reported to be in steady situation at San Juan Regional Medical Center.

“The suspect’s identity is unknown and there are no other known threats at this time,” police mentioned, including that metropolis, San Juan County and state police have been concerned.

The taking pictures was reported shortly after 11 a.m. within the space of Brookside Park, and all metropolis colleges have been positioned on what officers known as “preventative lockdown.” Three close by colleges remained on emergency lockdown.

An official on the San Juan County sheriff’s workplace, Megan Mitchell, known as the incident “an open and active ongoing investigation.” Mitchell mentioned she didn't instantly have extra data.

Federal brokers from Phoenix have been headed to Farmington, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives mentioned through Twitter.

Farmington is a metropolis of almost 50,000 residents in northwestern New Mexico, close to the Four Corners area. It serves a modern-day buying and selling put up to the adjoining Navajo Nation and is a provide line and bed room group to the area’s oil and pure fuel trade.

In current years, cafes and breweries have cropped up downtown alongside decades-old companies that commerce in Native American crafts from silver jewellery to wool weavings. Traveling Broadway reveals make common stops on the expansive group middle auditorium, whereas rural heaps on the outskirts are affected by disassembled oilfield tools.

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