New Mexico officer dies in chase of suspected kidnapper

By CEDAR ATTANASIO and WALTER BERRY
Associated Press / Report for America

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Police in Santa Fe have released the name of the officer who was killed in a car chase Wednesday. They say Officer Robert Duran had been with the Santa Fe Police Department since 2015. Police say the 43-year-old Duran leaves behind a wife and two teenage sons. Authorities still are looking for a suspected kidnapper they say led their officers on a chase ending in a fatal car crash on a major highway. Duran and an uninvolved motorist were killed when the kidnapping suspect drove into oncoming traffic. A woman allegedly kidnapped is now in the hospital, while the man police say was armed with a knife escaped from the carnage on the road.