Tuesday’s Top Stories
- Addressing Education With New Mexico’s Lt. Governor
- Former teacher accused of inappropriately touching students appeals detention
- Affordable housing still a concern in Santa Fe
- These 2010s movies and shows were filmed in ABQ. Have you seen them?
- Ruidoso High School hopes to turn heads during the 2025 football season
- Man pleads no contest to attack inside Albuquerque McDonald’s
- Shooter kills 3 in a Target parking lot in Austin, Texas, before being captured, police say
Tuesday’s Five Facts
[1] APD release details on officer-involved shooting that left one man dead – Police released details from a deadly shooting that began with a call from a woman, claiming her husband had taken pills and was suicidal. Officers arrived at the home in NW Albuquerque looking for Sammy Jenkins. APD says after nearly an hour of negotiating, Jenkins fired shots toward them and officers fired back. He and officers exchanged gunfire again before he moved downstairs to the garage. That’s where he was when APD says an officer, seeing a gun in Jenkins’s hands, shot and killed him.
[2] Three people face charges in connection to a murder in NM – Three people are facing charges after police say they worked together to kill a man and burn his body in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Jose Eversole, Samantha Montoya and Luciano Meza are facing charges in connection to the murder in May. Officers discovered human remains in the trunk of a car and on the ground nearby. Investigators determined the car belonged to Hayden Alter, who had been reported missing on May 21. Eversole is facing charges including murder and arson. Montoya faces charges for conspiracy and tampering with evidence. Meza is facing charges for intimidation of a witness.
[3] Cold front in eastern New Mexico & more rainfall – Tuesday will be similar to Monday with more isolated showers and storms developing through the afternoon and evening along with temperatures near to slightly above average for daytime highs. Heading into the middle to end of the week, more moisture will surge into New Mexico. This will bring more scattered showers and storms through the end of the workweek and into the weekend…