Questions raised on how Santa Fe police officer's son died
Police received the call around 8:30 a.m. Dec. 8: A frantic Courtney Harmon said
her 2-year-old son “fell off a chair” and there was “blood everywhere,” according to a search warrant affidavit. The document, filed in the 13th Judicial District Court, is the first publicly available record on what police say was the fatal shooting of the young son of a Santa Fe police officer. The affidavit names the boy as Lincoln Harmon and his father as Officer Jonathan Harmon, 28.
As the couple waited for first responders to arrive, Jonathan Harmon told dispatchers he was performing CPR to try to revive his son, the affidavit said The Santa Fe officer said he did not see his son lose consciousness.
The boy was bleeding heavily from his mouth and teeth were missing, he told dispatchers. When police arrived at the home they found a spent shell casing and “projectile” on the kitchen floor next to the child. An empty gun holster was lying on a table. An investigator asked the couple if there were guns in the home, the affidavit said, and Courtney Harmon said, “The gun was placed in a kitchen cabinet.”
A search warrant was for DNA evidence, bodily fluids, firearms, ammunition and any other items in the home deemed necessary for the investigation. Investigators executing it later that evening seized two AR-15 rifles, two Glock handguns, a holster, a magazine, numerous rounds of 9mm ammunition, a tooth, and blood samples from the kitchen and master bedroom, the document said.
Rio Rancho police Capt. Joel Holt, a spokesman for the agency, declined to say whether other children were in the Harmon home at the time of the shooting that killed the boy.
(So, the boy was shot and killed, yet the 911 call said he fell off a chair? Police are investigating one of their own in this case.)
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