FILE - Flowers are seen at a house where a gunman was standing shooting at random people on N Dustin Avenue officers on May 16, 2023, in Farmington, New Mexico. (Roberto E.
Rosales/Getty Images)SANTA FE, N.M. - Videos released Thursday of this week’s deadly rampage in northwest New Mexico recorded a voice said to be the shooter urging police to "kill me" and officers rushing toward the 18-year-old gunman before fatally shooting him outside a church."He is yelling on the Ring footage, ‘Come kill me,'" Farmington Police Chief Steve Hebbe said of Beau Wilson, the high school senior who authorities say killed three older women during the attack."He’s making a stand, he has opportunities to run off, he does not use those opportunities," Hebbe said. "So yes it’s my belief that ultimately in his head, he has made the decision that he is going to stand and fight it out until he is killed."RELATED: New Mexico gunman who killed 3, injured 6 shot randomly at cars, houses, police sayThree older woman were killed Monday by the shooter, including a mother and daughter who happened to be driving through the neighborhood.
The victims were identified as longtime Farmington residents Gwendolyn Schofield, 97, her 73-year-old daughter, Melody Ivie, and 79-year-old Shirley Voita.At least six other people were wounded in the shootings, which sent waves of grief rippling through the community of 50,000 people.