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Authorities are investigating the capturing of a person killed by police at his northwestern New Mexico house after they arrived on the improper handle, police mentioned.
Robert Dotson, 52, was killed Wednesday evening by officers with the Farmington Police Division after they obtained a name reporting a home violence incident round 11:30 p.m. and went to his home as an alternative of the one throughout the road, in accordance with native and state police.
“I’m simply heartbroken. … Mr. Dotson was not the topic of this name,” Farmington Police Chief Steve Hebbe mentioned throughout a Thursday video assertion posted on Fb. “This ending is simply unbelievably tragic. I’m extraordinarily sorry that we’re on this place.”
Upon arriving to the neighborhood in Farmington, which is about 150 miles northwest of Albuquerque, officers “mistakenly approached 5305 Valley View Avenue as an alternative of 5308 Valley View Avenue,” New Mexico State Police mentioned in a press release Thursday.
After nobody answered their knocks on the door, cops requested the dispatch to name the one who reported the incident and ask them to return to the entrance door.
In some unspecified time in the future, Dotson opened the door of his house whereas armed with a handgun and no less than one officer shot no less than one spherical from their gun, hanging and killing Dotson on the scene, in accordance with state police citing physique digital camera footage.
Armed with a handgun, Dotson’s spouse exchanged gunfire with officers, however she was not injured, authorities mentioned.
“As soon as once more, officer(s) fired. As soon as she realized that the people exterior the residence had been officers, she put the gun down and complied with the officer’s instructions,” state police mentioned of their assertion.
The responding officers, who weren’t injured within the capturing, is not going to be publicly recognized by state police, in accordance with their assertion.
It’s unclear what number of officers had been on the scene on the time of the capturing or what number of fired their weapons. It’s additionally unclear whether or not Dotson fired on the officers in any respect earlier than police shot and killed him.
CNN has filed a public data request with the New Mexico State Police for the physique digital camera footage. The video of the capturing is anticipated to be launched inside every week, Hebbe mentioned Thursday.
“There’s nothing I can say that may make this higher. It’s a horrible occasion, and I’m heartbroken over it,” Hebbe added.
The capturing is at present beneath investigation by the New Mexico State Police. The company’s Investigations Bureau has been requested to probe the incident, state police mentioned.