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Former Navajo police officer who lived with her is being held without bond.
Frieda Smith, who was in her early 40s, was found shot in her Thoreau mobile home shortly after 8 a.m. Tuesday and was flown to University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque, where she died, according to The Associated Press. Harrison Largo, 40, a former Navajo Nation police officer who lived with Smith, was arrested during a traffic stop on N.M. 605 later Tuesday and is being held without bond in Cibola County in connection with her death, the AP reported. He is expected to be turned over to McKinley County authorities, McKinley County sheriff's investigator Ed Marble told the AP.
11:10am 5/20/08 UPDATE: All three schools in the community of Thoreau were locked down as police looked for the suspect in a the shooting of a woman at a Thoreau trailer park, KOB-TV is reporting. Authorities notified the Gallup school district, which ordered the Thoreau elementary, middle and high schools locked down, KOB-TV reported. The suspect, former Navajo Nation police officer Harrison Largo, 45, was arrested around 9:45 a.m., New Mexico Department of Public Safety spokesman Peter Olson told KOB-TV.
10:56am 5/20/08 Shooting Suspect Captured: Ex-Navajo cop arrested without incident after allegedly shooting woman in Thoreau. New Mexico State Police responded to reports of gunfire at a Thoreau trailer park just after 8 this morning and found a woman who had been shot, state Department of Public Safety spokesman Peter Olson said in a news release. The woman, whose identification hasn't been released, was airlifted to University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque, Olson said. Around 9:45 this morning, a McKinley County sheriff's deputy arrested Harrison Largo, a former Navajo Nation police officer, in connection with the case. Largo was arrested without incident on N.M. 605, and a rifle was recovered in Grants, according to the release. N.M. 605 runs north from Interstate 40 exit 79 at Milan to San Mateo and crosses both Cibola and McKinley counties.
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