Jesus Christ, I used to know Morris when I worked as an aviation line tech at that airport. So surreal coming across this and sad to hear he went out like this.

Article that actually has information https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/2017/10/13/well-known-las-cruces-new-mexico-pilot-mayor-airport-dies-plane-crash/763401001/

The plane crashed during and airshow but it says authorities were called to respond at 8:30PM? Wouldn’t that be well into nighttime hours? Sounds like a terrible time of day to have an airshow.