Albuquerque –
According to the Albuquerque Police Department, the Department’s Homicide Unit is currently investigating a death at a residence along Turquoise Ave. NE. One individual was shot and died at the hospital.
ABQRAW received two tips about this shooting which reportedly occurred just after 9:00PM in the 13200 block of Turquoise Ave NE.
This is the 127th homicide of 2024.
This is the second shooting in this neighborhood this month. On December 11, 2024, there was a fatal shooting near Turquoise Ave NE and Copper Ave. NE. In this incident, the victim was pronounced dead at the scene.
UPDATE:
Just before 11:00 AM, APD’s civilian PIO released an email to the media stating:
“APD’s Homicide Unit is investigating this incident as a possible justifiable homicide. Detectives consulted with the District Attorney’s Office and made a preliminary decision against charging a teen-age boy who said he shot his father in self-defense.
Officers were dispatched Saturday shortly after 9 p.m.to the residence in the 13000 block of Turquoise Ave NE. Officers detained the teen-age boy and interviewed family members who described a physical altercation between the boy’s parents.
The father was shot one time during the confrontation. He was transported to a local hospital where he died as a result of his injuries.
Detectives will continue to investigate the incident.”
Law enforcement agencies, like the Albuquerque Police Department, do not count justifiable homicides in their crime statistics, which are given to the FBI for yearly Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) data.
However, the Office of the Medical Investigator (OMI) does not have a separate category or classification for justifiable homicides in its definition of homicides. There is no such distinction between the two, the OMI categorizes all homicides as homicides.
The OMI determines the cause of death using the following categories: natural, homicide, suicide, accident, undetermined, and pending. Pending is not a final category; it’s temporary, while the OMI waits for toxicology results and information from law enforcement, all of which helps the OMI finalize the cause of death.
The homicide count reported by the Office of the Medical Investigator is the official statistic we report. This figure includes deaths within the Albuquerque area that are subject to investigation by the Albuquerque Police Department (APD), Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO), New Mexico State Police (NMSP), and, on rare occasions, federal law enforcement agencies.