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A shooting on the University of New Mexico school in Albuquerque early Saturday that left one dead and a New Mexico State student hurt led to the post ponement of the males’s basketball competition game in between the schools.A 19-year-old New Mexico student was killed in the shooting, which took place at a university residence hall. New Mexico officials stated the 21-year-old New Mexico State student was in”stable condition after being carried [to a health center] for medical treatment. “According to New Mexico officials, police were called around 3 a.m. Saturday to examine an altercation between 2 guys. Authorities likewise informed ESPN that the bus for the New Mexico State men’s basketball group was stopped and released by regional authorities as part of the investigation.Officer Ray Wilson, spokesman for the New Mexico State Cops, said authorities have actually not launched the names of anybody included. Police have actually called the shooting a”particular event”that does not posture a threat to the general public. No members of the New Mexico males’s basketball team were involved in the shooting, a source told ESPN. A New Mexico State group representative
said the school did not have any additional information.”The whole Lobo community is shaken by this event, and we grieve the death of one of our trainees and the injuries sustained by another individual,”the University of New Mexico stated in a declaration.” The impact of this experience is life-changing for many and will extend far beyond expressions of grief and sense of loss– and far beyond the Lobo neighborhood.”New Mexico representative Steve Kirkland stated in a declaration that officials from both schools decided to delay the game, which had actually been set for 7 p.m. ET.The shooting comes just days after three University of Virginia football players were eliminated and another was hurt in a shooting on campus following a school trip on Sunday. The Cavaliers football team canceled its game against Coastal Carolina, with a memorial service for the 3 players– Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D’Sean Perry– being held Saturday.Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., a former Virginia walk-on football player, was apprehended on second-degree murder charges in the shooting.
