LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - Las Cruces police say a teen is dead after being shot and that investigators believe the youth was shot while a passenger in a car involved in a pursuit and exchange of gunfire between occupants of two vehicles.
Police Department spokesman Dan Trujillo says 17-year-old Jovon Solomon died at a hospital in El Paso, Texas, after being shot Monday evening.
Trujillo says the youth had at least two gunshot wounds to his neck or upper chest.
The spokesman says investigators believe Solomon may have been a passenger in a white Acura Integra that was located Monday evening and that the Acura and a dark-color sedan were engaged in a pursuit on Athenian Way when shots were fired.
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