Tribal officer killed after encounter on rural road

PREWITT, N.M. — A tribal police officer killed on a sprawling Native American reservation was shot after he encountered two people in a vehicle on a county road in the middle of the night, and a woman who saw he was wounded used his radio to call for help, authorities said Monday.

Navajo Nation Officer Houston James Largo, 27, came across the vehicle early Sunday while responding to a report of domestic violence at a rural address north of the town of Prewitt. He was shot and killed, McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy Roberta Jaramillo said.

“A female saw that the officer was down and called dispatch over his radio,” Jaramillo said.

Authorities quickly identified one of the people in the vehicle as the suspect, and the search intensified as daylight broke. Footprints helped officers track the suspect, who was taken into custody later Sunday morning. spring’s intense presidential primary, apparently wrongly believing they could cast ballots if they turned 18 ahead of the November general election, according to a new state report.

Wisconsin Elections Commission employees examined voter-fraud referrals that municipal clerks said they made to prosecutors following the 2016 spring primary and general elections. The commission is set to approve the findings during a meeting today and forward a report to the Legislature.

President Donald Trump has called for a “major investigation” into voter fraud and alleged that 3 million to 5 million people may have voted illegally in the November general election, a widely debunked claim. The report lists no instances of underage voters casting ballots in the general election.