🌱 SWAT Team Responds To Barelas Neighborhood + UNM Students Protest

Hello all. It's me, Helen Eckhard, your host of the Daily. Here's what you need to know about what's happening in town.

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Mostly cloudy and chilly. High: 42 Low: 25.

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Here are the top three stories today in Albuquerque:

1. On Wednesday night, a SWAT team responded to a Barelas neighborhood. The Albuquerque Police Department (APD) released information about the event, which happened on the 700 block of Pacific near 8th Street around 7:00 p.m on Wednesday. The APD says the event involved a person with an outstanding warrant who would not leave a home. (KRQE News 13)
2. One person is dead after a police-involved shooting in northeast Albuquerque. Early Thursday morning, New Mexico State Police say its officers were involved in the shooting around Louisiana Boulevard and Montgomery Boulevard. The suspect, whose identity has not yet been released, was pulled over for a traffic stop. Police then noticed several knives and drug paraphernalia in the vehicle. The suspect later appeared to consume some sort of drug before attempting to flee the scene. No officers were injured in the incident. (KRQE News 13)
3. University of New Mexico graduate students stopped traffic to protest for better pay and lower insurance premiums. On Tuesday, members of the United Graduate Workers of UNM took to the streets for their third protest of the year. Roughly 200 people blocked the intersection at Yale and Lomas for an hour to call attention to their ongoing issues with the administration, demanding higher wages and a stop to a proposal that would increase insurance premiums. (KUNM)

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Today in Albuquerque:

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From my notebook:

• Congratulations to fifth grader Julissa Platero from Cochiti Elementary School. Julissa is this week's Albuquerque Public Schools Student of the Week! Click here to learn more. (Albuquerque Public Schools via Facebook)
• Are you in the market for a new home? Browse this list of homes for sale in the Albuquerque area and find your dream home. (Albuquerque Patch)
• A litter of five kittens that were rescued from a wildfire in May has found homes in Albuquerque. (Santa Fe New Mexican)

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— Helen Eckhard

About me: Helen Eckhard is a marketing associate at Lightning Media Partners. Outside of work, she enjoys constructing crossword puzzles, knitting, or devising increasingly crafty ways to kill off characters in her mystery novels.