Silver BMW shoots gun and flees at high speed, Rio Rancho NM

Weapons

Reported: 10/27/2025 04:40 AM

Southern Blvd SE, Rio Rancho, NM 87124

A silver BMW with no headlights was driving recklessly near Southern Blvd SE in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The vehicle was going over 80 mph, cutting off traffic, and fired a gun into the air. It fled the scene, turning north onto Sara Road. Officers lost visual contact and the vehicle's location is currently unknown.

Audio|Source: Rio Rancho Police and Fire, USFS

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Transcript:

00:00

I just got a flag down by somebody core is just south of the intersection at west side either on the phone with APD can you get a give him a call and get some 49 he set a vehicle behind him just shot at 1080 in the air but I'm not sure which vehicle.

00:26

That voice.

00:33

He said it was a vehicle behind him, but there was no vehicle, so I'm wondering if it's the one behind me.

00:41

Close to Jen and Quartz.

00:49

One from 4 PD on the G7B6.

00:53

Just for a 49-pity, I didn't hear any gunshots, so I'm not sure where that exactly happened in Albuquerque.

01:13

1443. It was going to be the vehicle behind me.

01:16

It was in the term to go westbound on southern,

01:20

and then it just cut traffic off and continued north off 528. It's going to be as silver BMW, no headlights.

01:27

Copy as silver BMWs no headlights.

01:37

It's going over 80 miles an hour now. I lost visual. I'm just in case.

01:44

Where are you going to pass Sarah? It looks like it's turning north onto Sarah.

01:51

I sat down on Sarah.

01:53

One second, just for a port now looks like a mid-2000 BMW.

02:06

Copy 143 p.

02:14

I'm here in southern, I don't know where that'd be a Gwent.

02:21

Copy a lot specials there in southern southern.

02:29

I couldn't see a 20 on it was blacked.

02:38

I couldn't see a 20 on it was blocked up.

02:48

1044, if you could just give them R49, we don't have that vehicle anymore, so I don't know where it went.

02:56

Perfect.

03:00

And just have them give the CP a call.

03:03

I'm not exactly sure what other 49 he has, so he needs to report a crime.

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Southern Blvd SE, Rio Rancho, NM 87124

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