Former security guard facing 5 years in Hyde Park Road shooting
Santa FE NM February 28, 2026
A former security guard charged with shooting and wounding a Ski Santa Fe employee in a suspected road rage incident on Hyde Park Road in 2025 faces five years in prison after being convicted on all counts in the case.
A Santa Fe jury convicted Gregory Eugene White, 43, of aggravated battery, shooting at or from a motor vehicle, tampering with evidence and criminal trespass after a three-day trial earlier this month.
State District Judge Jason Lidyard ordered White to undergo a 60-day diagnostic evaluation at the Department of Corrections prior to his sentencing, the date of which has not yet been set, according to court records.
The charges sprang from a Feb. 19, 2025, incident during which the victim — a then-23-year-old Guatemalan man — testified he was driving to work early one morning when he was struck by a bullet fired into his bumper by someone driving a red pickup which he’d initially allowed to pass but later drove past after encountering the pickup pulled over on the side of the road.
Jurors convicted White despite his testifying he was not the shooter and he just happened to be in the area picking piñons the day of the incident.
White’s attorney said in his opening statement the victim initially told police he had been shot by a white man.
“His name may be Mr. White, but he’s not white,” defense attorney Charles Stoll said during his opening statement.
“The state has had a year to properly investigate this case but decided on day one it had its shooter, so it stopped,” Stoll said.
Prosecutors told jurors the victim called his boss after realizing he’d been shot but, scared, continued driving toward the ski area as Santa Fe County sheriff’s deputies arrived at the scene.
Deputies found White’s pickup parked along the roadway and encountered him coming down the hill on foot, according to an audio recording of the trial obtained from the court.
White told deputies he didn’t know anything about the shooting according to trial testimony, but deputies found a black bag containing an AK-47 under a tree on private property near the pickup which White claimed as his, according to the trial testimony.
Bullet casings found on the side of the road matched White’s gun, Deputy District Attorney Gina Manfredi told jurors.
“We can’t tell you that the bullet that hit [the victim] is matched to the defendant’s gun because the bullet is still in [the victim] to this day,” Manfredi added.
White testified he had moved to New Mexico from Baltimore about six years prior to the incident and had worked for Allied Security for more than five years — first in Albuquerque and then at a gas station in Santa Fe — before leaving the company over a disagreement regarding pay.
White held a Level 3 security guard license, which authorized him to carry a firearm on the job.
Court records showed he’d been charged with aggravated battery in Bernalillo County in 2024 — a charge that was later dismissed due to lack of prosecution — in connection with a February 2024 dispute with his roommate which had turned physical.
His former employer, Allied Universal Security Services, had also sought a restraining order against White in June 2024, alleging he had threatened another employe and members of the public with his own gun — an “AK-47 style rifle” — while on duty at a Cerrillos Road gas station.
The court issued a temporary order but did not convert it to a permanent injunction after the company had been unable to serve White in the case, court records show.
The state Regulation and Licensing Department revoked his Security Guard Level I, II and III licenses on April 1, citing “disciplinary actions” specifically the June incident and the charges related to shooting, according to the agency’s website.
