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NM deputy in custody after shooting death of fellow officer

A area of the Hotel Encanto in Las Cruces, New Mexico, is closed off after a shooting Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Authorities say a Santa Fe County deputy has shot and killed a fellow deputy at the hotel. Las Cruces police say the shooting took place just after midnight Tuesday. Officials say the two deputies were headed back to Santa Fe after transporting a prisoner to Arizona. It's not known what sparked the shooting. (AP Photo/Las Cruces Police Department)
The Las Cruces Police Department investigate a shooting at Hotel Encanto de Las Cruces in New Mexico on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. A Sante Fe County, New Mexico, sheriff's deputy shot and killed a fellow deputy at the hotel Tuesday after transporting a prisoner to Arizona, authorities said. The shooting took place just after midnight. It was not immediately known what sparked the shooting. (AP Photo/Las Cruces Sun-News, Robin Zielinski)
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By JUAN CARLOS LLORCA ASSOCIATED PRESS
October 28, 2014 - 10:50 am
 

LAS CRUCES, N.M. — A New Mexico attorney confirms that his client, Santa Fe County sheriff’s Deputy Ty Chan, is in custody in connection with the deadly shooting of a fellow deputy.

Attorney John Day says he’s on his way to the southern New Mexico city of Las Cruces, where the shooting happened early Tuesday at a hotel following a night of drinking and arguing.

Las Cruces police say Chan allegedly fired several rounds at Jeremy Martin as Martin ran down a hotel hallway and into an elevator.

Police arrived to find Martin staggering off the elevator with multiple wounds. He died later at a local hospital.

Day calls it a tragic situation for everybody involved.

Santa Fe County Sheriff Robert Garcia says his department is grieving and that he was at a loss for words.

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