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Santa Fe sheriff’s video reveals details in fatal shooting

Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office tape blocks a road near the scene of a fatal police shooting involving a man who allegedly stabbed a woman to death on July 7, 2021, in Tesuque, N.M. Details in an unrelated June 23 fatal police shooting were revealed this week in video obtained by a local TV station. (Cedar Attanasio/Associated Press)

SANTA FE – Newly published video reveals details in a fatal police shooting last month yet to be disclosed by the New Mexico State Police officials in charge of investigating it.

Santa Fe County sheriff’s deputies fatally shot an armed man wanted for arrest just before midnight on June 23 in Santa Fe, after a pursuit in a pickup truck, state police said.

Deputy bodycam and dashcam videos, first obtained by television station KRQE, show Nathan Roybal, 32, pulling over in a pickup and waving a handgun at police through the driver’s window. Deputies then fire at the truck from at least two angles.

Roybal then leaves the truck, drops his gun, and runs away from deputies, the videos show. Deputies shoot again as he leaves the truck, and continue firing after he drops his handgun and runs away with his back to the officers.

The most recent account of the shooting issued by State Police on June 24 said, “A male suspect got out of the vehicle, pointed a black handgun at the deputies. Deputies fired at the suspect, striking him.” They have not named the deputies involved in the shooting.

State Police officials did not respond to requests for comment Thursday morning.