Samuel Pauly

Deadly force

The Pauly brothers were returning home from work and encountered a road rage incident in which a couple young women, on route to Las Vegas, NM. The women contacted the state police with the license plate number. The state police showed up, en masse, at the Pauly residence without lights or sirens. As the cars approached the brothers, not understanding these were cops, armed themselves as they saw flashlights approaching the residence. They called out that they had guns, thinking it was people from the confrontation, not police. Samuel Pauly was said to have brandished a gun and, allegedly fired three shots, inside the residence, visible through a window and he was shot and killed.