Bernalillo County Sheriff's Deputies fatally shoot career criminal Colby Atkins in New Mexico

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Bernalillo County, South Valley, New Mexico – On September 20th, 2022 Bernalillo County Sheriff's Deputies shot and killed 45-year-old Colby Atkins. At approximately 1:22pm, deputies attempted to make contact with Atkins in his car. Atkins was described as being unresponsive. A total of four deputies eventually arrive at the gas station and attempt to immobilize Atkin’s vehicle by blocking it in with their cars since these unresponsive individuals can be unpredictable. The dashcam video of the officers encountering Atkins was then played and showed the suspect fleeing the gas station shortly after being awoken. Deputies then proceed to chase Atkins as he runs a red light and drives into traffic, where he struck two civilian vehicles. Atkins eventually disables his own vehicle at 1:26pm after striking the two civilian vehicles and colliding into a curb. After his vehicle came to rest, Atkins was then in and out of the car, refusing to comply with officers. Deputies then fired bean bag rounds at the vehicle’s windows in an attempt to improve visibility, however, the windows were heavily tinted and did not break when shot. Atkins shouted at deputies for a period of time, then pointed what was described as a “black object” at a civilian’s vehicle, while adopting a “shooting platform”. It was at this point that deputies discharged their firearms, striking Atkins, and life-saving measures were performed at the scene. The black object was later discovered to be a flashlight. It was discovered in a search of Atkin’s vehicle that there were drugs, a series of stolen debit and credit cards and the car itself was stolen. Atkins himself has been released from federal prison in 2020 for a bank robbery and also had drug related charges, violation of probation and resisting and evading officers.