Albuquerque police are investigating after a 16-year-old was killed and another person injured in an overnight shooting early Saturday. (Mike Sandoval / For the diary)
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A teenager has been identified as the person who was killed in a double shootout early Saturday morning at an apartment complex near Copper and Wyoming NE.
Gilbert Gallegos, an Albuquerque Police Department spokesman, said 16-year-old Gabriel Garcia (Zimmerman) was found dead after police were called to a shooting at Block 500 in Tennessee NE. Gallegos said he did not know why homicide investigators gave two last names.
Gallegos said the ShotSpotter shot detection system alerted officers around 1 a.m. that multiple shots had been fired. He said when they arrived they found “numerous bullet holes” in a residential complex.
“Officials carried out social checks on tenants and discovered a deceased man in Apartment No. 4,” said Gallegos. “The rescue started and ended the male deceased and did not transport him.”
Another man was shot dead as well, but he went to the hospital before the officers arrived. Gallegos did not provide any information about his age and said he was in stable condition.
Garcia was killed less than 24 hours after a man was found dead in a minivan on the neighboring block.
On Monday, Gallegos identified this man as Samuel James Adviento, 53.
He said the officers were posted to Block 400 in Texas NE just after 7 a.m. because ShotSpotter identified shots fired. He said when they got there they found the minivan with broken glass on the driver’s side and Adviento dead in the passenger seat.
There were no arrests in either case. Gallegos said Saturday there was no evidence of a link between the two murders.
Gallegos said APD has now investigated 83 homicides in 79 cases. Excludes legitimate homicides or the three homicides within the city limits investigated by the New Mexico State Police.
One of the cases that was initially thought to be murder has now been found to be an overdose, Gallegos said.
He said detectives recently received autopsy results on a “suspicious death” that occurred on July 16 in the 1600 block of Hiawatha NE.
“(The medical investigator’s office) found that the deceased died of a heart attack caused by a drug overdose,” Gallegos said.
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