A New Mexico grandmother shot and killed a car theft suspect who broke into her home Friday night while defending herself and her 4-year-old grandson.
What are the details?
Albuquerque police said they tried to stop a stolen truck near Central and Cypress around 8 p.m. and used spike strips to flatten the tires. Albuquerque Journal reportedcited a criminal complaint filed in the Metropolitan District Court.
Police told the newspaper that the truck “went off the edge” and hit a curb near Candelaria and Rio Grande Northwest.
The driver ran into a neighborhood, and police searched the area, the paper said.
The woman, who was with her 4-year-old grandson, told police she heard someone inside the house and confronted the man, who “seemed angry,” and said, “I just want my keys,” the paper said. ”, he added.
The newspaper reported that the woman told police that she considered arming herself, but that she didn’t know if she would have time to use a weapon if the intruder also had a gun.
The woman told police that she led the intruder to a “bowl of keys” in the kitchen and that the man left with several keys, the newspaper reported.
Police said the woman then said she grabbed a gun and took her grandson to a bedroom, but found the intruder in the hallway “demanding more keys,” the newspaper reported.
There, the woman told police she pointed a gun at the intruder and “told him to get out,” but the intruder started approaching her instead, the newspaper reported, citing the complaint.
According to the newspaper, the woman told police that she was afraid that he would kill her and her grandchildren, and shot him once.
The woman told police that the intruder fell to the ground and “began crawling down the hallway looking for water,” adding that she “applied pressure to the wound until police arrived.” Ta.
According to the paper, the woman called 911 around 9:30 p.m. When officers arrived, they detained the robber, identified as 32-year-old Joseph Rivera, at her home, and the woman handed police the gun she used in the shooting. That’s what it means.
Police told the Journal that Rivera was charged with robbery, attempted robbery and motor vehicle theft and will be held in jail after being released from the hospital.
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Rivera is currently on pretrial release for a July 2023 incident in which he was found in a stolen vehicle with fentanyl, cocaine and heroin, according to court records. At the time, Rivera told police that he was suffering from undiagnosed mental health issues and addictions that made it “very difficult for him to have a personal life and take care of his family.”
A warrant was issued in that case after he failed to appear for a court hearing in October.
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