{"id":92878,"date":"2023-05-16T23:14:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T04:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=92878"},"modified":"2023-05-16T23:14:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T04:14:03","slug":"92878","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=92878","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Teenage gunman, three elderly victims ID\u2019d in New Mexico mass shooting<\/a><\/p>\n

Three elderly women \u2014 including a 97-year-old mother and her daughter \u2014 were identified by police Tuesday as the victims killed at the hands of New Mexico teenage gunman Beau Wilson.<\/p>\n

The 18-year-old \u2014 armed with three guns \u2014\u00a0fired indiscriminately as he walked<\/a>\u00a0through a quarter-mile stretch of the city of Farmington Monday morning, killing Gwendolyn Schofield, her 73-year-old daughter, Melody Ivie, and 79-year-old Shirley Voita, cops said.<\/p>\n

Six others, including two police officers, were injured in the shooting before cops killed Wilson.<\/p>\n

Police believe the\u00a0violence was \u201cpurely random\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and that Wilson did not know any of his victims.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe amount of violence and brutality that these people faced is unconscionable to me,\u201d Farmington Deputy Police Chief Kyle Dowdy\u00a0said at a press conference.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t care what age you are, I don\u2019t care what else is going on in your life, to kill three innocent elderly women that were just absolutely in no position to defend themselves is always going to be a tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Officers are still working to determine a motive for Wilson\u2019s mass murder in his own neighborhood near the Four Corners \u2014 where New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Colorado meet.<\/p>\n

Dowdy said the rampage started at 10:56 a.m. and the threat was neutralized just 10 minutes later.<\/p>\n

The Farmington High School student sprayed at least 150 bullets, though officers expect the number of casings discovered to rise dramatically as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n

Video footage showed Wilson, dressed in black, pacing around the church driveway holding what appeared to be a handgun with an extended, high-capacity magazine before he was killed.<\/p>\n

Shirley Voita, Gwendolyn Schofield and Melody Ivie were killed in the<\/p>\n

Wilson used three guns during the rampage \u2014 one \u201cassault-style rifle\u201d that he legally purchased in November shortly after his 18th birthday and two other guns that belonged to family members.<\/p>\n

Though multiple homes were struck by bullets, Wilson was targeting vehicles \u2014 all the victims, other than the two injured officers, were struck while driving through the area.\u00a0Farmington officer Rachel Discenza delivered the fatal shot to Wilson, who exchanged a bullet simultaneously.<\/p>\n

Police are still working to uncover a motive, but said Wilson did not know any of his victims.Jon Austria\/Albuquerque Journal via Shutterstock<\/span><\/p>\n

The teenager had a history of minor infractions, Dowdy said, but nothing that \u201cwould rise on our radar.\u201d\u00a0Officers also believe Wilson was suffering from some type of mental health issues.<\/p>\n

The shooting is still under investigation, and police expect to continue releasing information and body camera footage in the following days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Teenage gunman, three elderly victims ID\u2019d in New Mexico mass shooting Three elderly women \u2014 including a 97-year-old mother and her daughter \u2014 were identified by police Tuesday as the victims killed at the hands of New Mexico teenage gunman Beau Wilson. The 18-year-old \u2014 armed with three guns \u2014\u00a0fired indiscriminately as he walked\u00a0through a … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92879,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92878\/revisions\/92879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}