On July 15, 2023, at about 2:18 a.m., Alamogordo officers tried to stop a vehicle driven without lights near Puerto Rico and 9th Street. The driver, identified as 26-year-old Dominic De La O, fled, crashed into a light pole and exited his vehicle armed with a sawed-off shotgun. During a foot pursuit he turned and shot Officer Anthony Ferguson in the face.

Officer Ferguson, 41 and an 11-year veteran of the Alamogordo Police Department, was taken to the University Medical Center in El Paso and died of his wounds on July 16, 2023. He is survived by his mother, father, four brothers, a daughter and a son. De La O was shot in the leg by police during the incident and was arrested at a nearby home.

The killing deeply affected the law enforcement community in New Mexico. If anyone knows more about the events that night or had contact with those involved, please share what can help the investigation.