High-Profile Lawyer Is Killed Near Court

An attorney who took on child murder and civil rights cases nobody else wanted was killed in a drive-by shooting as he walked near his Santa Fe, N.M., office to court. Carlos Vigil, 52, died on a sidewalk just yards from the Steve Herrera Judicial Complex, where he had represented clients in a variety of cases, often charging them only what they could afford to pay. Police were looking for a man with a criminal record whom Vigil had filed a harassment complaint against, said Espanola Municipal Judge Charles Maestas, a family friend.