Teen kills 3 before police shoot him in New Mexico

Taos, New Mexico — An 18-year-old gunman stalked through a New Mexico neighborhood on Monday, firing randomly at bystanders, houses and cars, killing three people and wounding six before police shot him dead outside a church, authorities said.

The late-morning shooting spree unfolded in a residential area of Farmington, New Mexico, a major retail center and regional hub for the fossil energy industry about 290 kilometers northwest of Albuquerque.

Police responded "to find a chaotic scene where a male subject was actively firing upon individuals in that neighborhood", Baric Crum, deputy chief of operations for the Farmington Police Department, said in a news briefing hours later.