ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – On Saturday morning, the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) asked the community to keep their distance while they were responding to an area on Central.
APD Chief Harold Medina was on his way to a press conference to talk about crime on Central Avenue when he suddenly got caught in it. The chief found himself at the center of a car crash while trying to dodge gunfire on Route 66.
APD reported Medina and his wife were in his police truck when he stopped because he saw an encampment blocking a sidewalk. That’s when an unrelated physical fight happened nearby, and someone pulled out a gun.
“As he was turning on his police radio to call it out, he noticed that one of them brandished a gun. One person kicked the other individual and that individual started firing shots in the direction of where the chief was in his truck,” says Gilbert Gallegos with the Albuquerque Police Department.
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