Violence at motorcycle rally stuns Red River residents, visitors
May 28—RED RIVER — Joseph Herrera took a long walk through this small tourist town late Saturday afternoon and wound up in the wrong place.
He was lost. But he was lucky.
Herrera ended up six blocks from where he began: the site of a deadly shooting that left three men dead and five wounded after factions of what New Mexico police are calling "outlaw motorcycle gangs" engaged in a gunfight.
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