Fatal shooting of Albuquerque bank robber

A man fatally wounded by an Albuquerque police officer in a Smith’s parking lot earlier this month yelled that he had a gun before he was shot in the back by an officer just outside the entrance to the store, police said.

Richard Rivera, 47, did not have a gun at the time but left one inside a stolen van he had just crashed before he was shot by officer Jonathan O’Guin, Albuquerque police Lt. Ray Del Greco said during a news briefing Thursday on the June 16 shooting.

Police also said Rivera, during a car chase before the shooting, repeatedly fired at police with a 9mm that he reloaded at least once. And he used the same gun to rob both a Verizon store and its customers of phones, money and jewelry earlier that day. Del Greco said Rivera forced customers to the back of the store and racked his handgun during the robbery, police said.

“The fact that Mr. Rivera had continuously been firing rounds at officers during a vehicle pursuit, had robbed not only Verizon Wireless employees but patrons of the Verizon Wireless at gunpoint, coupled with the fact that he was running through the parking lot of the Smith’s yelling that he has a gun,” Del Greco said, “it led officer O’Guin to believe that the potential harm to innocent civilians in that Smith’s grocery store was so great that the need to utilize the force that he did there was what was needed at the time."

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