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College basketball game postponed after player shot and hospitalized night before rivalry matchup
By Keith Farner
Published:
University of New Mexico officials called off a basketball game against in-state rival New Mexico State after a 19-year-old man was killed and a 21-year-old man was wounded in a predawn shooting Saturday at the University of New Mexico campus in Albuquerque.
School officials issued a statement about the decision to call off the game.
The shooting took place about 3 a.m. and the wounded man was taken to a hospital for treatment of unspecified injuries, police said. His condition was not immediately disclosed, the Associated Press reported.
UPDATE on tonight’s game… pic.twitter.com/lfXsSlNNVq
— Lobo Basketball (@UNMLoboMBB) November 19, 2022
Geoff Grammer of the Albuquerque Journal confirmed that Mike Peake, who plays for the Aggies, was the 21-year-old shot and hospitalized.
(4/x) The Journal has confirmed Mike Peake, a junior forward for the NMSU Aggies, who were in town to play the UNM Lobos tonight in the Pit, was the 21-year-old shot and hospitalized…
The game, for those unaware, has been postponed…
— Geoff Grammer (@GeoffGrammer) November 19, 2022
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
