NM gunman who killed 3 was local high school student

FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — The gunman who killed three people and wounded six others while roaming through his northwestern New Mexico neighborhood and apparently firing at random targets was a local 18-year-old high school student, authorities said Tuesday, noting they were still trying to determine a motive for the attack.

Beau Wilson lived in the Farmington neighborhood where he opened fire on Monday, killing three women, authorities said at a news conference. One of the three was a woman in her 90s, another was that woman's daughter, who was in her 70s, and the third was also a woman in her 70s, said Deputy Police Chief Baric Crum.

Witnesses and police say the gunman walked through the neighborhood a short drive from downtown Farmington spraying bullets until police arrived at the scene within minutes and shot and killed him.

Crum said the shooter was indiscriminately shooting at vehicles, but rounds also hit homes in the area.

“At this point our investigation is showing that he was indiscriminately shooting at vehicles but also we know that during that shooting rounds hit … residences within the area,” Crum said.

Farmington Police Deputy Chief Kyle Dowdy said that in November, Wilson legally purchased at least one of the weapons he used in the attack.

“The amount of violence and brutality that these people faced is unconscionable to me,” Dowdy said. “I don’t care what age you are, I don’t care what else is going...