James Matthew Boyd was fatally shot by Albuquerque Police Department officers Keith Sandy and Dominique Perez on the evening of March 16, 2014, in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains near Albuquerque, New Mexico. A resident of a nearby subdivision called police at 3:28 p.m. to report that a man had been camping in the mountains behind his house for the past month. Two Open Space officers were the first to respond. They approached Boyd as he lay under a tarp or cover; he became irate and produced a knife. After a five-hour standoff, Boyd was shot with a rifle as he was turning away from officers, and was then fired on with a beanbag shotgun. He died early the next morning at the University of New Mexico Hospital of massive trauma after surgeons amputated an arm and removed part of a lung and his spleen in an effort to save his life.
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