ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – It’s been nearly 40 years since an Albuquerque police Department officer was gunned down by a Sandia National Laboratory scientist. Despite it being nearly four decades since that crime, for that officer’s brother, the memories are still vivid. On Thursday, he spoke out on the news that his brother’s killer died in prison.
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On a tragic night in 1987, 26-year-old Albuquerque Police Department Officer John Carrillo responded to what would be his last call. Officer John Carrillo and his partner responded to the home of Sandia Labs physicist Merrill Chamberlain for a domestic violence call involving a prostitute. Chamberlain ambushed the officers and shot and killed Carrillo. “We miss him to this day still. Forty years later, we still miss him,” said George Carrillo, Brother of John Carrillo.
To this day, George Carrillo, who was also an APD officer at the time, still has questions for his killer, “Why? Why did it get to this? Why did you have to kill him?”…