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He said early Tuesday that officers with the Department of Corrections were attempting to arrest the woman for a probation or parole violation in an aggravated assault or battery on a peace officer case. They initially found her near Eubank and Juan Tabo NE around 9 a.m., he said.

“They attempted to make contact with that person, and that person was armed and presented a firearm,” Gonzales said at a press conference Tuesday afternoon. The woman was “able to flee in a stolen vehicle in the area.”

A couple of hours later, the U.S. Marshals task force – made up of local, state and federal agents – tracked the woman to the Mountain Run apartment complex on Eubank near Layton NE, Gonzales said.

Two deputies found her and at least one opened fire, he said.

“That person presented a firearm and deadly force was used in that incident,” Gonzales said. “That person was pronounced dead at UNMH.”

He would not release the name of the woman until next of kin has been notified. He wouldn’t say if she lived at the apartment complex or why she ended up there.

Undersheriff Greg Rees said nobody on the task force was injured. Gonzales said investigators are looking into how many members of the task force opened fire and how many times.

Ryan Schachtner lives in the Mountain Run apartments next to where the shooting occurred. He said he heard the commotion and looked outside.

“There wasn’t a whole lot of yelling before the shooting took place,” he said. “Then I heard ‘get on the ground’ and more yelling back and forth. And then the gunshot.”

Schachtner said he ran to the balcony to look outside and saw a person who wasn’t moving lying next to the driver’s side of a gray pickup. He said the person was wearing white tennis shoes and sweatpants.

The gray pickup looked as though it had driven up on the grass next to another apartment and belongings were strewn near it on the grass. A blue SUV was stopped behind the truck. Gonzales wouldn’t comment on what vehicles were involved in the incident.

“We were able to see the crowd of police,” Schachtner said. “We saw the body lying down on the ground and saw paramedics doing CPR.”

Then, he said, the paramedics took the person to the ambulance, which left with its lights on.

Conrad Candelaria, the U.S. Marshal for the District of New Mexico, said the task force had relied on multiple sources to find the fugitive at the apartment complex.

“It was a combination of not just undercover capacity but also a lot of undercover intelligence sources that were being relied upon to determine the whereabouts of this fugitive,” Candelaria said. “That led us to this location here.”

The U.S. Marshals task force has members from local agencies, including the Albuquerque Police Department, BCSO, New Mexico State Police, and Rio Rancho Police Department. No APD officers were involved in the shooting.

This is the third fatal incident involving the U.S. Marshals Service in the first four months of this year. On Feb. 20, they shot and killed Edgar Camacho-Alvarado, 23, at a West Central trailer park while they were searching for another fugitive. On Jan. 15 a man killed himself when they attempted to pull him over for violating federal probation in Colorado. There were three shootings involving the U.S. Marshals in 2014.

Digital editor Robert Browman and Journal staff writer Nicole Perez contributed to this report.