NM pair arrested for mock shooting

ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) - Roswell police have charged two people with misdemeanors after accusing them of staging a mock fight outside a grocery store that resulted in officers responding to 911 calls about a shooting that turned out to be faked.

Police in the southeastern New Mexico city arrested 26-year-old Nevada Smith and 24-year-old Delilah Cole on Monday in connection with Saturday's incident.

Roswell police spokesman Officer Travis Holley says a group staged a fight in a parking lot, and as the argument escalated, Smith fired at another person.

Holley says that person used condiments from a fast food restaurant as fake blood, then the group loaded the limp body in a pickup truck and fled.

The officer says there are some things you just don't joke about.