BCSO deputies involved in Downtown shooting

Witness describes man running from crash before being shot

Deputies were involved in a shooting in Downtown Albuquerque on Wednesday night, according to the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office.

BCSO spokeswoman Felicia Maggard confirmed that deputies had been involved in a shooting but gave no other details.

Maggard did not say if someone had been shot, if any deputies were injured or what led to the shooting.

Dozens of BCSO vehicles shut down the area of Central and 8th, and crime scene tape crisscrossed the roundabout.

Within the perimeter, two trucks could be seen crashed into each other, one of them missing a tire.

Karlee Serrano and her three friends stood near the crime scene tape, dressed in a variety of colorful costumes.

Serrano said they were cruising Central for Halloween when a black truck sped by, riding on its rim, with three deputy vehicles chasing it.

“It didn’t have a passenger tire,” Serrano said of the truck. “When we turned around, that truck had hit head-on with another, right behind us.”

She said they watched a man get out of the first truck and run as deputies got out of their vehicles with guns drawn.

“The (deputies) were yelling for him to stop, and he just kept running,” Serrano said. “So they started shooting.”

Serrano and her friends said they looked away and heard several gunshots.

Afterward, Serrano said, they went to check on the family that was inside the truck the man had crashed into.

“They were OK; the kids were fine,” she said.

Serrano said deputies told them the man had been shot but gave no other details.

“We came to see the costumes,” Serrano said, regretfully. “We’re not going to be coming Downtown for a while.”