Police: Road rage ends in fatal shooting at westside Walmart

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Police: Road rage ends in fatal shooting at westside Walmart 6:30 a.m.

One person is dead and others were injured in a shooting and related vehicle crash at the Walmart at 2550 Coors Blvd. NW Wednesday night.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — One person is dead and others were injured in a shooting and related vehicle crash at the Walmart at 2550 Coors Blvd. NW Wednesday night.

Albuquerque police say there was a shootout at Walmart just after 6:30 p.m. that all started with road rage. One of the vehicles involved was a white truck with an old Suburban on the trailer, the other a black Dodge Charger. 

Police say these two drivers got into it on the road and took it to the Walmart parking lot, where two other vehicles pulled up and got involved. They say that’s when people started shooting and the driver of the black Charger ran into three people. 

“The driver of the black Charger got in his vehicle, turned around came and drove straight into three individuals, pinning them into a smaller white truck. At that point, one of the individuals who was pinned between the Dodge Charger and the truck turned his gun on the driver of the black Charger and fired rounds into the car, striking that driver of that vehicle,” said APD Public Information Officer Gilbert Gallegos. 

Police say one of the people pinned between the two vehicles shot the driver of the Charger, who then got out of his vehicle and began running toward Walmart. He collapsed in the parking lot and died. 

Police say a security guard arrested two people involved. The other three are in the hospital. They believe all the people involved are accounted for as of Wednesday night. 

Walmart reopened Thursday morning.