Angelic Suzette Garcia

Deputy Angelic Garcia succumbed to injuries received from a vehicle crash earlier in the night while responding to a backup fellow deputies at a fight with weapons call at a bar on Fourth Street.

During her response, her cruiser left the roadway near the intersection of Ranchitos Road Northwest and Fourth Street Northwest and struck a tree on the passenger side. She was transported to a local hospital where she passed away.

Deputy Garcia had been a member of the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department for three years, and was the first female officer with her agency to be killed in the line of duty.