4 Dead After Sheriff’s Office Helicopter Crash in New Mexico

4 Dead After Sheriff’s Office Helicopter Crash in New Mexico
The Metro 2 helicopter in an undated handout photo. Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office
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LAS VEGAS, N.M.—Four people have been killed in a crash of a Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office helicopter that was headed back to Albuquerque after assisting firefighters in another New Mexico city, authorities said Sunday.

Sheriff’s officials said three people from the sheriff’s office and a county firefighter were aboard the helicopter when it went down near Las Vegas, New Mexico, about 123 miles northeast of Albuquerque.