ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Two suspects have been charged in a six-year-old murder case on Albuquerque’s Westside. Police said that in July 2020, Angelo Cuellar-Salazar and Ryan Mathis organized a scam to obtain a COVID-19 small business loan for $10,000.
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Police said Mathis introduced the victim, Genoveva Paiz, to Cuellar-Salazar to work the same scam. Police said Paiz went to Mathis’s home near West Mesa High School, where she was shot and killed. Police believe Mathis and Cuellar-Salazar bound Paiz’s body with electrical cord, wrapped her with a cloth swamp cooler cover, and stuffed her inside furniture.
Cuellar-Salazar was arrested on Monday. Mathis is already in custody on unrelated charges…