ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Recent Mexico investigators say a University of Recent Mexico student conspired with two other students and a teenage girl to lure a visiting Recent Mexico State University basketball player onto campus, resulting in a shootout that left the UNM student dead and the player wounded.
The investigation into the shooting early Saturday continued Monday, with Recent Mexico State Police confirming that they arrested and charged the teenager with aggravated battery and conspiracy. It was too early to say whether others would face charges.
Police identified Brandon Travis because the University of Recent Mexico student who was fatally shot and accused of planning the assault on Mike Peake, the starting power forward for the Aggies basketball team. Police have identified the opposite two students, but their names haven’t been released.
The shooting in Albuquerque happened hours before the scheduled tipoff of a basketball game between the rival schools, which was later postponed. It was not clear if the sport can be rescheduled or if a Dec. 3 matchup in Las Cruces would go on as scheduled.
Recent Mexico State Police said an altercation between Travis, 19, and Peake led to the shooting. They said Travis had plotted along with his friends “to lure the 21-year-old victim to UNM campus and assault him.” How and why they initially crossed paths remained unclear.
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“Once on the campus, Travis, armed with a firearm, confronted and shot the victim. The victim, who also had a firearm, shot Travis,” authorities said in an announcement issued Sunday.
The teenager girl and Travis’ friends fled the scene outside a dormitory at UNM’s Albuquerque campus.
Peake was listed in stable condition at a hospital.
Recent Mexico State University officials confirmed Monday that the player was Peake, a Chicago native who spent most of highschool playing in Kansas before signing with Georgia after which transferring to Austin Peay State University. He got here to NMSU for the 2021-22 season.
Recent Mexico State University Chancellor Dan E. Arvizu said in an announcement it was necessary that “nobody rush to judgment until all of the facts are made available.”
The shooting got here six days after a former University of Virginia football player allegedly killed three Cavaliers football players and wounded two other students on the Charlottesville campus before being arrested.
Recent Mexico State University officials said no students are allowed to have any weapons on university property or at university sponsored activities, and that doing so is a violation of the scholar code of conduct. They noted that players’ bags shall be searched in the longer term after they board the bus for road trips.
University officials also said they’ve develop into aware of other student athletes who violated team curfew rules in the course of the trip to Albuquerque, but those student athletes weren’t a part of the incident.
After dinner, the team had returned to the hotel and watched video footage from 10:30 to 11:30 p.m. to arrange for the sport. Bed checks were done at 11:45 p.m., and officials said all student athletes were of their rooms at the moment. An assistant coach was present within the hotel lobby from midnight until 2 a.m., they said.
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