Ryan David Martinez pleaded no contest Monday to reduced charges of aggravated battery and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in the shooting of a Native American activist during demonstrations about abandoned plans to reinstall a statue of a Spanish conquistador.
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Native American climate activist and artist Jacob Johns (R) drums with members of the Santa Clara Pueblo tribe of New Mexico in Santa Fe, 11 Jul 2024. He survived the 26 Sep 2023 assassination attempt. "The lifelong scars and injuries, loss of an internal organ, mental anguish and trauma will be with me forever " and in a couple of years Martinez will live free," Johns said.
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Gun-Violence-in-New-Mexico-2024-05.pdf (everystat.org)
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