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A shooting last week in Farmington, N.M., where police went to the wrong house and killed a man, is just the latest example of lethal force being used against civilians in the state.

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OPINION: Lessons from the tragic police shooting of a Farmington man must be learned and applied to prevent such an incident from occurring again.

That leaves open the question of how police got the address wrong in the first place. What checklist procedures are in place to preclude an armed response and the assumptions that go with one until a positive identification has been established?

Farmington Police Chief Steve Hebbe said officers had a mix-up and showed up at the house across the street from 5308 Valley View Avenue; stopping at 5305 Valley View Avenue instead.

Police in Farmington, New Mexico, went to the wrong home in response to a domestic violence call and shot and killed the homeowner on Wednesday.

In what the Farmington Police Department called “a chaotic situation,” an innocent man was shot dead at his front door.

The end of 2023’s legislative session led to over 240 bills getting through the Roundhouse. By the end of Friday, the last day for Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to sign legislation, more than 200 measures from the 60-day Legislative session became law.

The Farmington police fatally shot Robert Dotson, 52, after mistakenly going to his home instead of a nearby home for a domestic violence call.

A homeowner was killed by police responding to the wrong address for a domestic violence call, police in New Mexico said Thursday.