‘Bloody footprints’: Woman involved in Days Inn hatchet murder of victim hacked more than 80 times learns her fate

A woman has learned her fate for playing a part in the bloody hatchet killing of a man at a motel in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Angel Salazar, 40, has been sentenced to life in prison for felony murder, second-degree murder, and tampering with evidence “in connection with the brutal killing of Ramon Martinez,” Bernalillo County District Attorney Sam Bregman announced on Thursday. A jury found Salazar guilty of the crimes in August.

On the morning of Sept. 5, 2023, Martinez was sitting and smoking outside a room at the Days Inn on Central Avenue in Albuquerque. Salazar and a man who has still not been identified were seen approaching him just before 10 a.m. and then following him inside the room, police said…

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