Video released Friday shows a gray-haired man wearing what appears to be a nightshirt pull up in an Audi SUV or wagon about 1:20 a.m., then walk up to the camera-equipped vehicle and fire at least five rounds from a handgun.
The video of the April 11th incident was provided by RedFlex Traffic Systems of Arizona -- the company that owns and operates a pair of SUVs with Santa Fe Police Department markings that use radar and cameras to capture images of vehicles exceeding the speed limit on local streets during daytime hours.
The targeted vehicle had been left overnight on the roadside in the 700 block of Bishops Lodge Road, north of downtown.
Police had reported last week that only three bullets hit the vehicle, piercing the windshield and damaging the roof, but that the camera equipment remained intact.
The video shows the shooter stood roughly 10 feet away from the vehicle when he aimed the handgun. The man at one point appears to yell something after firing the weapon.
The enforcement vehicles, which create images that are used to issue citations to registered owners of cars caught speeding, haven't been uniformly popular.
Although police credit the program with cutting back on speeding, critics have complained about the "Big Brother" aspect of being videotaped on public streets, that the automated enforcement process is flawed and that fees are too high.
Paintball guns previously have been used to attack the city's unmanned SUVs, but this was the first time someone used a firearm on one of the vehicles, a police spokesman said.
The city deploys the SUVs on various city streets but ran into resistance from the state Department of Transporation against using unnamed camera equipment for enforcing traffic laws on state-maintained roads.
The vehicle struck by bullets is listed as "unavailable" on the city's website as repairs are made.
