1 wounded in shooting at protest over New Mexico statue of Spanish conquistador

A protester was wounded in a shooting during a demonstration against a plan to redisplay a statue of a controversial Spanish conquistador in the New Mexico city of Española on Thursday, authorities said. A suspect has been arrested.

The shooting occurred a little before 12:30 p.m. local time in front of the county's offices, where the statue of Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate was to have been displayed before the county reversed course the night before, Rio Arriba County Sheriff Billy Merrifield said in a news briefing

A large crowd of protesters had gathered outside the location, and the shooting stemmed from an altercation between them, a sheriff's office spokesperson told CBS News.