Former NM Reporter Dies From Gunshoot Wounds In Phoenix

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 A lawyer who died after being shot by a gunman in a Phoenix office was a former reporter with the Santa Fe New Mexican.

The paper reported (http://bit.ly/TlxKH2) that Mark Hummels left the Santa Fe New Mexican in 2001 to attend law school at the University of Arizona.

A publicist for his law firm said Friday that the 43-year-old Hummels died after being placed on life support. He was the second of three people hit by gunfire to die from in the attack.

Police say the gunman — 70-year-old Arthur Douglas Harmon — was found dead early Thursday in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound

Hummels covered local and state government for the newspaper in the late 1990s and early 2000s.