FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) - One of two Navajo Nation police officers wounded in a shootout that ended with another officer and a suspect dead will be released from the hospital this week.
The Daily Times in Farmington says (https://bit.ly/1NQFkm0) Officer James Hale is set to leave the University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque.
Deswood Tome, the Navajo president’s chief of staff, says Hale’s family has asked that his medical condition not be disclosed.
The second officer, Herbert Frazier, is recovering at home.
Authorities say 42-year-old Officer Alex Yazzie was killed March 19 after 24-year-old Justin Fowler shot at officers in Red Valley, Arizona.
Fowler led police on a high-speed pursuit from a Shiprock home where he allegedly had been beating his wife and mother.
Fowler was killed by police.
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