A 21-year-old shot his stepmother as she went in to hug him at his charter school graduation ceremony, New Mexico police say.
Graduating charter school at 21?
... Officers initially thought they were responding to an active shooter situation but later learned a single gunshot was fired, Gallegos said.
The investigation revealed that Bencomo’s stepmother “started to hug him,” and he pulled out a “handgun and shot her in the neck,” police said.
“We made it all the way through graduation – it was really lovely until it wasn’t,” Mary Ward, a witness, told KOB 4 Eyewitness News.
What was the point in ruining it for everyone?
The woman was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries, according to Gallegos. She underwent “hours of surgery,” according to the organizers of a GoFundMe, who said she will need continued medical treatment and rehab.
Angel Chester, the woman’s sister, was close by when the shooting happened, KRQE News reported. Chester told the station she witnessed Bencomo stomp on her sister’s head following the shooting....
Failed New Mexico Man execution, amazing.
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