Bishop Henderson III is a free man. On Monday, August 22, after a trial that lasted nearly three weeks, Henderson was found not guilty by a Lea County jury on three counts of First Degree Murder and on four counts of Aggravated Battery with a Deadly Weapon.  The three-victim mass shooting, known as the “Hobbs…

This article was first published in February, 2012. Lea Rancher Bert Madera passed away in 2021 Ranching and cattle have been stampeding through Madera family blood for several generations, and today on his sprawling ranch 20 miles west of Jal, New Mexico, Bert Madera is still in the saddle doing the old time work his…

After two previous continuances, the murder trial of Bishop Henderson, 20, has been set back once again. Henderson is the only person charged in the August 2019 backyard shooting in Hobbs. Three people died and four were injured. Dead at the scene were Khalil Carter, 18, and Kristal Avena, 24, both of Hobbs. Lamar Lee…