Man Pleads Guilty to Shooting at Homes of Election Officials for ‘MAGA King’

A New Mexico man admitted that he was paid by a failed Republican candidate to target the homes of his political rivals.

Demetrio Trujillo pled guilty to carrying out three drive-by shootings at the homes of election officials in 2022, according to court documents filed on Friday in Albuquerque District Court.

Trujillo told prosecutors that he’d been paid by Solomon Peña, who’d selected the targets because he believed that they’d rigged the election for the 14th district of New Mexico’s House of Representative against him in 2022.

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