Police have shut down much of the area around 5th Street between St. Michael’s Drive and Siringo Road. They’re not even letting people through the blockade who live in the neighborhood. Why?

Evidently, a man with a high-powered rifle has barricaded himself in his home after firing shots into the air. KRQE is reporting that area schools are not allowing their students to leave.

St. Mike’s is traffic-heavy with detours. Until this is over, take the long way around.

This just in from the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office:

WARNING: Ticket Sale is a Hoax

Santa Fe Public Schools would like to warn the community the 50/50 tickets or raffle tickets which have been recently circulating throughout Santa Fe is a hoax. It has been reported the perpetrators selling these fake tickets around the Santa Fe area and are stating they are from Agua Fria Elementary or Gonzales Community School in order to raise money for these two schools. Be aware these two schools or any other Santa Fe Public Schools are not selling these tickets. Santa Fe Public Schools would like to ask the community if they are approached by these people to call City Police immediately at 428-3710 or Santa Fe County Sheriff at 428-3720.

Wait—does this mean those other kids selling candy bars aren’t really on a basketball team?

This chart is from the Esperanza Shelter for Battered Families in Santa Fe. It shows the dramatic increase in the number of domestic violence victims, both adults and children, they tended to last year, as well as a slight increase in the number of offenders who got some form of counseling through the shelter.

The shelter’s figures don’t give a complete picture, however. Police statistics provided by Santa Fe Domestic & Sexual Violence Liaison Carol Horwitz show fewer 911 calls, but more arrests.

Those stats, and more, after the cut.

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I really have nothing to add to this press release from Santa Fe Police Department spokesman Sgt. Jason Wagner.

OK, I do have something to add. I hope they park this bad boy on Agua Fria.

Update Nov. 6: OK, I have something more to add. The New Mex said yesterday that drivers won’t get auto-tickets unless they’re driving 11 mph or more over the speed limit. Which means the police are admitting the actual speed limit in Santa Fe is whatever the sign says plus 10, right?

The current issue of SFR has an update on the still-somewhat-mysterious death of Gilbert Roybal, the hair salon owner who was struck—apparently just once—on the street on Fiesta weekend, and died the next morning.

First, SFR reported witnesses’ concerns that responding Santa Fe Police Department officers showed little apparent concern as to Roybal’s welfare and may have missed their best chance to find his attacker. Then, we reported the Santa Fe Fire Department’s defense of its own medics’ response, along with one 911 caller’s fears, voiced to emergency personnel, that Roybal may have had a brain injury.

Now we’re posting the audio of the calls related to Roybal received by the Santa Fe Regional Emergency Communications Center. The calls suggest any errors that may have been made by local first responders might have been compounded by triage nurses or doctors at the hospital.

Citing its privacy policies, CHRISTUS St. Vincent Regional Medical Center has refused to explain when and how Roybal was treated after he arrived there. The time stamps on the calls provide a rough timeline of Roybal’s treatment, from witnesses at the scene of his attack to doctors calling the SFRECC to gather more information about what exactly had happened to Roybal.

The first call from the hospital came at 12:54 am—approximately five hours after Roybal was loaded into an ambulance.

There is disagreement within the medical field about the existence of a so-called “golden hour” in which a trauma patient’s life is most likely to be saved, but a long delay in treatment would certainly not have done the injured Roybal any favors.

Here are the emergency calls from the hospital.

Sept. 12, 12:55am — (Original of call unclear)

“Do you know what happened…?”

Sept. 12, 12:54 am — Hospital to SFRCC

“I was told to call one of you guys if you could send an officer over here…”

We’ve posted the rest of the 911 calls in reverse chronological order after the cut.

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