Patricia Balderrama, 63, a woman from Carlsbad with deep ties to the oilfield community near Loving, was found dead from apparent gunshot wounds on the morning of July 30, 2025. Deputies with the Eddy County Sheriff's Office were called just after dawn to the 100 block of South Donaldson Farms Road, at a building used by Pecos River Oilfield Services outside Loving, where they discovered Balderrama and 55-year-old Nathan Scott McGee unresponsive. First responders could not resuscitate either vic
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