Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office Investigates North Valley Homicide

Albuquerque –

At approximately 8:17 PM on December 1, 2024, Bernalillo County Sheriff’s deputies and Bernalillo County Fire Rescue responded to a homicide scene near the 10500 block of 4th St NW. Upon arriving at the scene, they found a deceased individual.

The identity of the deceased and the cause of death are currently under investigation, and the incident is being treated as a homicide.

The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office is actively seeking any information related to this case. Community members with any information are urged to contact the BCSO Violent Crimes Unit at ViolentCrimes@bernco.gov or call 505-468-7100.

It should be noted that this homicide investigation was launched on December 1, 2024, but the media was not informed until December 3 at 12:56 PM. Essentially, the media was not informed until 40 hours after the initial response.

We reached out to both Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office and Bernalillo County Fire Rescue to find out more information about this homicide, given that we were not able to go to the scene when this incident occurred. As of this posting, we have not heard back from BCSO, but BCFR stated:

Thank you for reaching out to our office. As this is an active investigation with BCSO regrading this call in I am unable to disclose any info currently.  I have attached the BCSO PIO office email and hope they will be able to help you in this matter. Once again thank you for reaching out and we appreciate your ongoing support of ours as well as all other public service entities.

BCSO responded to our inquiry and said:

Deputies and fire responded to a vehicle fire at that time and on that date. Upon arrival, they put out the fire and the deceased person from the homicide alert was located inside the vehicle.