When I sold my property there in NW NM, the man who bought it looked warily at the neighbors next door and wondered if they might be Mexicans.
I told him it was a family of Navajos and he let out a sigh of relief and said.... “I’m glad it’s just Indians! Mexicans will steal you blind!”
Just picked up 2 grandsons from their elementary school in Aztec due to early out. Have lived in the county over 45 yrs, 4 miles from Aztec the last 20. I hope your buyer after living there found out that if you choose to live in New MEXICO, that you will run into Hispanics now and then (over 60% of NM population). The natives on the whole are laid back honest folks, the Hispanics are hard working and no more prone to thievery than any other group. The county is quite a melting pot and pretty peaceful. We'll have to see what the whys/whats etc. of this shooting turn out to be.