ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Heartbreak and shock: a family is grappling with the loss of a 22-year-old who was killed over a trivial dispute at an Albuquerque apartment.
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As she flipped through the pages of a photo album full of memories, mother Maria Rodriguez faces the pain of what she’s lost. “She wasn’t just my daughter. She was my best friend. She was my everything,” said Rodriguez.
At 22-years-old, Esmeralda Romero was making big plans for the future, working towards joining the Air Force. It’s a future that was taken away from her on July 20 at the Albuquerque Encore Apartments near Eubank and Lomas, where her mother recounts a call she received from her daughter about her downstairs neighbor…