Mom sentenced for driving teen kids to homicide

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A judge sentenced a local mom to decades in prison for driving her teenage kids to an apartment complex to murder a man.

Prosecutors say Raeanna Ruiz drove her teenagers to an apartment complex near Candelaria Road and Carlisle Boulevard in 2023. The teens then reportedly chased Santiago Roybal up a stairwell and into his apartment. Then, Ruiz reportedly yelled at her daughter to “shoot through the door.”

Roybal was shot and died at the scene…

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