Shooting tied to biker gang prompts hospital lockdown

A member of the Vagos Motorcycle Club was shot by a rival motorcycle gang member near Franklin E. Miles Park late Saturday evening, the Santa Fe police on-duty commander said. Santa Fe police Capt. Robert Vasquez said officers were interviewing members of the local chapter of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club as suspects in the shooting. Both the victim and the suspected shooter or shooters have claimed partnership to the motorcycle gangs, Vasquez said.

The unidentified victim was sent to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Vasquez said. The shooting occurred near Camino del Gusto and Alamosa Drive, he said. Visitors to the Vagos Motorcycle Club member who was shot came flooding into the Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center emergency room Saturday evening.

The hospital imposed a lockdown for more than an hour, not allowing visitors inside.
Three state police vehicles were parked outside the emergency room after 9 p.m. Four hospital security guards referred requests for comment to a hospital spokesman. The security guards asked a reporter to leave the hospital’s property after providing the spokesman’s number.

Patients were being admitted and released from the hospital.
Arturo Delgado, a spokesman for the hospital, said in a text message late Saturday evening that patient flow was never stopped during the “brief lock-down” imposed for “precautionary measures. "He said in a message sent at 9:25 p.m. the lockdown had been lifted."
Generally, the hospital goes into “lockdown mode until the situation is resolved and it’s been determined that there is no danger to patients or visitors,” Delgado said. Such lockdowns are imposed when a patient admitted to the hospital “is brought in under certain circumstances that might pose a danger to others,” Delgado said.


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