Sandy Jones, candidate for State Land Commissioner, was not hurt after his truck was shot at earlier today by passing car on Interstate 40, just a few miles south of Clines Corners, NM.

“I am a little shaken by the incident, but I was not hurt and that’s what’s important,” said Jones.  “I was just a few inches away from getting out of the land race,” he said.

Jones was on his way to Lovington to the Lea County Rural Cooperative meeting this evening.  

Jones said he was pulled over on the side of the road to use his cell phone when the back passenger window on his truck was shot.  Jones only saw that a van was passing by but did not get a good look at the vehicle.

Jones said he flagged down a State Police officer and the incident is being investigated.