State police raise money for fallen officer's family

CLOVIS - The New Mexico State Police division in Clovis, through a donut sale, raised $15,000 for the family of fallen police officer Darian Jarrott Wednesday.

The NMSP sold the donuts in the Hobby Lobby/Harbor Freight parking lot surrounded by over a dozen squad cars with flashing lights. From a folding table officers exchanged their stock of 1,200 donuts for however much people wanted to give.

Officer Jack Carpenter of the CPD said the sale started at 10 a.m. and the donuts sold out within 40 minutes. For the next three hours people continued to show up and donate money outright. In addition to providing the donuts, Daylight Donuts donated its proceeds from Wednesday's sales.

The sale was one of 12 fundraising efforts by each of the NMSP's districts around New Mexico. Carpenter wasn't aware of what each district did, but said Roswell's division raised a similar amount by holding a car wash.

Other fundraising efforts identified through Friday by The News included a GoFundMe by the Hobbs NMSP division which had raised $66,000, and a Las Cruces sports bar raising more than $90,000.

In a show of state-wide support all 12 districts of the NMSP held fundraisers for the family, including a car wash by Roswell's division.

Jarrott was shot after initiating a traffic stop near mile marker 101 east of Deming. His alleged shooter, Omar Felix Cueva, was fatally injured in a firefight with other officers after a pursuit that covered nearly 40 minutes.

Jarrott, who had served with the NMSP since 2015, was the father of three young children and had another child on the way with his wife Gabriella.