Three New Mexico State Police officers were on a meal break at a restaurant in Pecos on the morning of October 20, 2022, when a man ran across the street and pounded on the door asking for help. A stranger in a black pickup towing a white camper had pointed a handgun at his partner in a gas station parking lot and threatened them both, along with any officer who came looking. It was ten forty six in the morning. One officer walked out and found the truck within a minute. What followed was a pursuit on State Road 50 in which the driver repeatedly crossed into oncoming lanes, struck three vehicles, and then ran into the forest on foot, leaving his wallet and driver's licence behind in the wreck. Two people from the cars he hit were taken to the hospital. A shelter in place went out to the houses nearby, and he was gone. He was not found again for nine hours. In that time a house alarm went off a few miles away, and a woman at a campground lost her car to a man who had just been talking to her. The second pursuit ended the same way as the first, with a head-on collision and a man running into the trees, this time in fading light and rough country near Rowe Mesa. The search that followed involved a State Police helicopter, a drone team, and a tactical unit walking an unlit mountainside after dark. Some of that footage is very difficult to see, and where it has been brightened it is marked on screen. The audio is exactly as it was recorded. Source agency: New Mexico State Police, San Miguel and Santa Fe Counties, New Mexico. Reported charges: aggravated fleeing a law enforcement officer, NMSA 1978 30-22-1.1; three counts of leaving the scene of an accident, NMSA 1978 66-7-201; aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, NMSA 1978 30-3-2; two counts of resisting, evading or obstructing an officer; residential burglary, NMSA 1978 30-16-3; unlawful taking of a motor vehicle; and criminal damage to property over one thousand dollars. This is public police body camera and in-car footage obtained through a public records request. We add commentary and analysis explaining what is happening and the law behind it. The footage has been edited and condensed for length. The order of events is preserved. Still photographs from the case file are labelled on screen as case photos. Names have been left out of the title and thumbnail. Identifying details spoken on camera have been removed from the audio, and no material identifying the people who were hurt or threatened appears in this video. We obtain footage like this through public records requests. You can look up any agency, see its records, and start your own request at https://foia.direct #BodyCam #Police #NewMexico #Pursuit #StatePolice

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