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New Mexico State suspends basketball player after shooting

LAS CRUCES, N.M. -- New Mexico State power forward Mike Peake has been suspended indefinitely from the basketball team in connection with last month's fatal shooting of a student from the University of New Mexico, athletic director Mario Moccia said.

Moccia told reporters Monday night that neither he nor the school could comment on Peake's enrollment status as a student. Peake, 21, has not been charged in the Nov. 19 predawn shooting on the New Mexico campus in Albuquerque hours before the host Lobos were to play the Aggies.

The game between the schools was canceled, along with the Dec.