ALAMOSA, Colorado – Police officers went door-to-door in a rural area of southern Colorado on Sunday as planes searched for a man suspected of shooting three people, killing one and then fleeing on foot into farmland after a botched carjacking.
Suspect Henry Corral, 44, should be considered armed and dangerous, police in the small city of Alamosa said.
“It’s a huge area – probably almost 30 square miles that we need to work on. There’s still a lot to do,” Alamosa Police Chief George Dingfelder said of the search. “It’s rural farmland, and in some places you can have three or four houses in a square mile.”
Dingfelder declined to discuss a possible motive. Corral has an extensive criminal history that includes prior convictions for manslaughter in 2004 and felonious assault in 2016, public records show.
Officers found the three victims after responding to a report of shots fired at The Sunset Inn in Alamosa around 2 a.m. Sunday. The city of about 10,000 people is about 50 kilometers from the New Mexico border.
One of the victims died and the other two were airlifted to a hospital in critical condition.
Corral fled the scene in a vehicle that crashed off the road about 6 or 7 miles outside of Alamosa, Dingfelder said.
The suspect then attempted to steal a vehicle belonging to a good Samaritan who heard the crash and came to check it out, Dingfelder said. The attempt failed when Corral argued with the other person, who took the keys and fled, while Corral ran in the other direction to a farm, the chief said.
On Sunday night, authorities said, an arrest warrant was issued for Corral involving allegations of first-degree murder, attempted murder, tampering with evidence, attempted aggravated robbery and possession of a weapon by a previous offender.
Corral separately faced charges of domestic violence, violation of a protection order and felonious assault from two other recent criminal cases in Alamosa County, court records show.
The search involved federal, state and local authorities in an area south and west of Alamosa that was expanded Sunday night.
Authorities also asked homeowners with doorbell cameras or surveillance systems to check them and contact police if they notice anything suspicious.
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