Detectives and agents of the Gallup Police Department arrested DeShawn Yazzie, 18, of Gallup, just before 9 am Nov. 21. Yazzie was located in a vehicle on the west side of Gallup.

Yazzie was wanted for attempted murder, among other charges, after allegedly shooting multiple people at the Gallup Skate Park, 308 E. Hwy. 66, Oct. 14. He was taken into custody without incident and was booked into the McKinley County Adult Detention Center on those charges.



 

THE SKATE PARK SHOOTING

The Oct. 14 shooting left three victims in the hospital and the skate park has been closed indefinitely ever since.

Around 6:30 pm Oct. 14,three brothers were at the skate park when one of two...

Lane Charley

Nov. 14, 8:36 pm

Aggravated DWI (4th offense)

Gallup Police Officer Cindy Romancito said she was dispatched to the 2300 block of West Highway 66 to back up another officer who had conducted a traffic stop.

When she got to the site, she found another officer talking to Lane Charley 29, of Thoreau, who had been stopped when the officer noticed his headlights were not on and then watched as both his tires went onto the rumble strip off the roadway.

The officer said when he contacted Charley, he saw an open container of liquor in his vehicle and smelled the odor of alcohol.

Romancito sad she asked him if he was willing to take the standard field sobriety tests...

Navajo, Jicarilla Apache, Mescalero Apache tribes represented

ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. – New Mexico held its first meeting of the task force to study the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women Nov. 8.  The group will define goals, develop a strategy to understand the extent of the problem in New Mexico and create a final report that meets the requirements of State House Bill 278.

First Lady Phefelia Nez spoke at the meeting. “Throughout Indian Country, we hear far too many stories of families and victims who experience this traumatic epidemic of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. We need to put a stop to it, and it begins with identifying barriers, collecting and...

Well-known Gallup locals leave community grief-stricken

It was a single vehicle rollover in the early morning hours of Nov. 10 that took the life of Corey Ritchie Joe, who was two days away from celebrating his birthday.

The crash seriously injured the driver, 32-year-old Gallup Independent reporter Maggie Adams.

Adams was traveling westbound on Interstate 40 in her 2006 Mazda when the accident occurred near milepost 102, not far from Acoma Pueblo, at about 2:17 am.

Joe, 25, played Benny Bengal, the mascot for Gallup High for four years. He was a graduate of New Mexico State University, where he majored in social work. He also counseled at Linda Middle school, worked with homeless...