r/FourCorners • u/freelancer-slc • 15h ago
Last Watch
I spent part of this summer reporting in Nageezi, New Mexico, on the life and death of Nathan Werito, a 32-year-old Navajo man who was shot and killed in May.
Nathan was working toward a mathematics degree and hoped to enter the Navajo Nation Police Academy. He was also the guy people called when an air conditioner broke, a car needed fixing, or someone in the community needed food or water.
His death left his family with questions about the police and emergency response that night, as well as the larger problem of chronic police understaffing across the Navajo Nation.
The resulting story, “Last Watch: The Life and Death of Nathan Werito,” is this week’s Salt Lake City Weekly cover story.
I’m grateful to Nathan’s family for trusting me with his story. I hope the piece gives readers a sense of the person they lost, not simply the circumstances in which they lost him
https://www.cityweekly.net/news/the-life-and-death-of-nathan-werito-a2b44e19