The latest on mass shooting in Farmington, New Mexico

The suspect in Monday’s mass shooting roamed a Farmington, New Mexico, neighborhood and fired "indiscriminately" at vehicles and at least six houses, Deputy Police Chief Kyle Dowdy said Tuesday during a news conference.

“Hundreds of people” called to report the shooting, which began Monday morning just before 11 a.m., Dowdy said.

Upon arriving on scene, police officers shot and killed the shooter, he said.

The suspect has been identified as Beau Wilson, an 18-year-old student of Farmington High School.

Police are still investigating how the shooter obtained the weapons used in the shooting, though Dowdy said one of the three guns used was legally purchased in November 2022.

No motive has been identified, he said.

The gunman accused of killing three people and injuring six others in a shooting in a New Mexico neighborhood Monday has been identified as 18-year-old Beau Wilson, according to police.

Wilson was a student at Farmington High School, Deputy Chief Kyle Dowdy said at a news conference Tuesday. The gunman was shot by police.

Police are still investigating how the suspect got the guns, Dowdy said, adding that they do know one weapon was purchased legally in November 2022. Officials previously said the shooter had three guns during the shooting, including an AR-style rifle.

Dowdy said the shooting appears to be “completely random” with no clear targets or motives that have been identified so far.

The deputy stressed the investigation is ongoing.

Seven patients in total were treated at the hospital following Monday's fatal incident, Fire Chief Robert Sterrett said at a news conference Tuesday afternoon.

Three patients were transported by an emergency medical services vehicle, two by their own vehicle, and two officers were transported to the hospital.

The two law enforcement officers who were injured in Monday’s mass shooting in Farmington, New Mexico, have been released from the hospital, Mayor Nate Duckett said during a news conference on Tuesday.

The shooting left three people dead and six others injured.

New Mexico officials are giving an update on a shooting Monday in Farmington that killed three people and injured six others, including two police officers.

Here's what the police have said so far:

Local officials in New Mexico are offering prayers and words of resilience after a gunman killed three people and injured six others in Farmington.

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said she has directed the state to support the investigative efforts of the city and county.

“Although details continue to emerge about this incident, this serves as yet another reminder of how gun violence destroys lives in our state and our country every single day,” she said in a statement. “This administration will not stop fighting the epidemic of gun violence from every angle possible.”

Farmington Mayor Nate Duckett said he has received calls of support from the White House, lawmakers in Washington, the Navajo Nation and mayors throughout the state.

About 46,400 people live in Farmington, which is in northwestern New Mexico, just south of the Colorado state line. It is about 150 miles northwest of Albuquerque and about 50 miles from the Four Corners area where the borders of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah intersect.

Three people were killed and six others were hurt in a shooting in Farmington, New Mexico, on Monday, according to police.

Officers were involved in a shooting with a suspect, who was killed on scene, the Farmington Police Department said on Facebook.

The shooter and victims in New Mexico have not been publicly identified. Police are expected to hold a news conference Tuesday afternoon.

Two officers were shot. One New Mexico State Police officer drove himself to a medical facility and was still hospitalized as of Monday night, the chief said. Another Farmington officer was wounded and released from a hospital.

Farmington’s San Juan Regional Medical Center received seven patients, spokesperson Laura Werbner told CNN. She declined to comment on their conditions.

In an update, police said they don't believe there is a second suspect.

The teenage gunman who killed three people and wounded six others in New Mexico appeared to target victims at random as he roamed a neighborhood, using at least three guns – including an AR-15-style rifle – to fire at homes, cars and other targets before police shot him dead, authorities said.

The attack leaves yet another American community “reeling in anguish and disbelief,” Farmington’s mayor said.

“There were no schools, no churches, no individuals targeted,” Police Chief Steve Hebbe said, adding the shooter appeared to fire at what “entered his head.”

Investigators are still piecing together how the attack unfolded over a “wide and complex scene” that spans more than a quarter of a mile, Hebbe said in a video statement.

The shooter strode through the neighborhood in this commercial hub near the Southwest’s Four Corners and “randomly fired at whatever entered his head to shoot at,” including houses and cars, before police arrived and fatally shot him, he said Monday night.

In his arsenal was an AR-15-style rifle – a weapon of choice among US mass shooters in recent, high-profile massacres, including the 2012 Sandy Hook school attack and a shooting in Uvalde, Texas, nearly a year ago that left 19 children and two teachers dead.