Man accused in shooting at Española protest faces attempted murder charge
Ryan Martinez, 23, of Sandia Park also faces a fourth-degree felony count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
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Ryan Martinez, 23, of Sandia Park also faces a fourth-degree felony count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
NMSP NEWS RELEASE On Thursday, September 28, the New Mexico State Police Investigations Bureau was called to investigate a shooting at 1122 Industrial Park in Espanola, NM. State Police Investigations Bureau agents learned, that on September 28, at around 12:30 p.m., a protest was happening between individuals over the Juan De Onate Statue. Ryan Martinez…
Activists in Española had peacefully gathered to protest a monument of Juan de Oñate when Jacob Johns was allegedly shot by a man wearing a Trump hat.
Thursday’s shooting is the latest manifestation of far-right political violence incited and cultivated by the aspiring dictator Trump and the Republican Party.
A Native American man was shot, allegedly by a man wearing a Make America Great Again hat, on Thursday at an Española rally where county officials had originally planned to