{"id":38859,"date":"2025-02-23T03:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=38859"},"modified":"2025-02-23T03:41:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T09:41:40","slug":"1-airman-dead-another-wounded-in-shooting-near-new-mexico-air-force-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=38859","title":{"rendered":"1 airman dead, another wounded in shooting near New Mexico Air Force base"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A shooting early Saturday morning near an Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico, left one airman dead and another wounded, authorities said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It happened around 2 a.m. Saturday near an entrance to the Kirtland Air Force Base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In a news release, the Air Force said an incident at the base&#8217;s Truman Gate &#8220;led to an off-base pursuit that resulted in an Airman being injured and another killed.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/multiple-injuries-reported-shooting-pennsylvania-hospital-law-enforcement\/story?id=119079367\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The airman who was wounded had a gunshot to the hand and was taken to the UNM Medical Center for treatment. His injuries were not life-threatening, the Air Force said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Air Force Office of Special Investigations in coordination with the FBI and Albuquerque Police Department. Authorities said there is currently no threat to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;To protect the integrity of the open investigation, we cannot provide additional details at this time,&#8221; the Air Force news release stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/1-airman-dead-wounded-shooting-new-mexico-air\/story?id=119086127\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shooting early Saturday morning near an Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico, left one airman dead and another wounded, authorities said. It happened around 2 a.m. Saturday near an entrance to the Kirtland Air Force Base. In a news release, the Air Force said an incident at the base&#8217;s Truman Gate &#8220;led to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":38860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[1337,1461,602],"class_list":["post-38859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-air","tag-base","tag-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38861,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38859\/revisions\/38861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}