APD identifies 3 recent murder victims »

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ALBUQUERQUE, NM – Albuquerque police released the names of two men and one woman who were murdered in the city in the past few weeks.

APD spokesman Gilbert Gallegos said the deaths of Kevin Miner, 58, Catherine Archuleta-Sanchez, 32 and Julian Mayes, 31, are being investigated as homicides.

There were no arrests in those cases. So far, APD has investigated 72 homicides across the city.

The three most recent murders occurred over a ten-day period, two of which were shootings.

The last was on Sunday when officials responded to a shooting at around 3 a.m. at the Sierra Meadows Apartment Homes near Eubank and Montgomery. Mayes was found shot dead in the complex.

Then, on July 21, at around 9:30 p.m., police were dispatched to the Courtyard Apartments near San Pedro and Montgomery to make reports of the shooting of a woman. The officials found Archuleta-Sanchez fatally shot.

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And on July 16, first responders went to a rescue operation on the 1600 block of Hiawatha NE, near the Indian School and Juan Tabo. Paramedics found miners lifeless in a house and murder detectives were called in to investigate.

Gallegos said the cause of Miner’s death is not yet known.

“We are waiting for the official autopsy report to see if the death was related to a medical episode,” he said.