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LAS CRUCES, N.M. — A California woman shot and killed herself while driving in southern New Mexico after her daughter refused her mother’s request to kill her, authorities said.
The girl, age 9, told investigators that her mother began to breathe heavily, possibly from an asthma or emphysema attack, and handed over a 9 mm handgun.
“She told her to shoot her. And she wouldn’t,” said state police Lt. Roman Jimenez.
The woman fired a shot into her own chest Thursday morning and the car rolled to a stop on the left shoulder of Interstate 10 west of Las Cruces. The girl was not injured.
Denver Post wire services
