Three Clovis men -- Larry McClendon, 20; Anthony Wallace, 19; and Joshua Martinez, 30 -- were indicted Friday for first-degree murder in the January 2007 shooting death of 36-year-old store owner Emmett Salisbury, the Clovis News Journal reported.

According to an arrest-warrant affidavit unsealed Monday in Curry County Magistrate Court, the three accused men were after Salisbury's supply of illegal narcotics, the News Journal said.

Salisbury died from a single gunshot wound to the chest on Jan. 7, 2007, and his body was found the following day by his business partner, according to the affidavit.

The partner allegedly told police he had been warned that people wanted to kill Salisbury because he was selling crack cocaine and methamphetamines from the store, the News Journal said.

Police found quantities of the illegal drugs in Salisbury's store they said were consistent with trafficking amounts, the paper reported.

Court documents also show that Wallace told fellow inmates at the Curry County Detention Center that while Martinez waited in a car, he and McClendon went inside the store and that McClendon took a gun from Wallace and shot Salisbury, the News Journal said.

All three are being charged with first-degree murder under New Mexico's aiding and abetting statutes.

The three also have been held on robbery charges, and Wallace and McClendon have been behind bars on those charges since the week of Salisbury's death, while Martinez was arrested the following month, the paper reported.

Wallace was convicted in December of felony armed robbery, aggravated burglary, assault with intent to commit a violent felony, intimidation of a witness and attempted armed robbery and was sentenced Friday to 36 years in prison, according to another News Journal story.

Four people were allegedly assaulted at gunpoint and robbed outside Salisbury's store on the night the store owner was shot, the News Journal said.

Martinez and McClendon are still awaiting trial on the robbery charges, and police are looking for a fourth person in connection with the case.

Michael England, 28, is being sought on a charge of tampering with evidence, the News Journal reported. 

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