John Fuentes has been charged with murder following a shooting at University of New Mexico in Albuquerque that left a fourteen year old boy dead
According to police reports John Fuentes would open fire inside of a dorm room at at Casas del Rio a student housing complex. A fourteen year old boy would die from his injuries and another person in the room would suffer non life threatening injuries
The University Of New Mexico in Albuquerque would put out a shelter in place order to the campus
Eighteen year old John Fuentes would be arrested during a traffic stop soon afterwards
All police have released regarding motive is that four individuals were playing video games inside of the dorm room before the shooting took place
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A suspect was arrested Friday in a shooting that left one person dead and another injured at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and prompted a shelter-in-place order, officials said.
John Fuentes, 18, was arrested by state police officers at a traffic stop around 2:30 p.m. Friday, said Troy Weisler, chief of the New Mexico State Police.
John Fuentes remains in state police custody. Weisler said he believes the suspect is booked at Metropolitan Detention Center in Albuquerque.
Charges are still pending, but Weisler said he expects the suspect will be charged with one count of murder and additional charges.
The school said campus police received a report early Friday morning of shots fired at Casas del Rio, a student housing center.
When officers arrived, they found broken windows and blood in the dorm room where the shooting occurred, Weisler said. They also found two people with gunshot wounds.
One person, a 14-year-old, was pronounced dead, and the other suffered non-life-threatening injuries, the university said in a post on social media. The injured student is receiving care at a hospital, according to university President Garnett S. Stokes.
Weisler said UNM Hospital reported receiving a 19-year-old patient who said he had been shot on campus.
Officials did not identify either of the individuals. Their identifications and additional details about them are “forthcoming,” Weisler said.
The incident appears to be isolated and there are no further threats to the campus or the community, Weisler said. No other suspects are believed to be involved.
There were four people total involved, said Joe Silva of the University of New Mexico Police Department. They appeared to have been playing video games together in one of the dorm rooms in the residence hall.
One of those four people is a student who has a lease with the university for the dorm room, Silva said. It was not clear which of the four the student was.
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The identity of the suspect arrested and charged in relation to the fatal shooting at the University of New Mexico (UNM) has been revealed.
In a statement issued on Saturday, July 26, the New Mexico State Police (NMSP) named 18-year-old John Fuentes as the alleged perpetrator.
Fuentes was located by authorities in Valencia County and was taken into custody without incident on the afternoon of Friday, July 25, hours after the shooting, the statement said.
He was then booked at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Albuquerque on charges of murder in the first degree, aggravated battery, aggravated assault and tampering with evidence.
NMSP were initially called to the UNM campus in the early hours of July 25 after receiving a report of a shooting from the University of New Mexico Police Department, according to the statement.
Campus police responded to an alarm signal at Mesa Vista Hall, an academic building located on campus, at 1:36 a.m. local time.
Upon arrival, campus officers observed broken windows and suspected blood, and, after conducting a security sweep of the surrounding buildings, they discovered the body of a deceased 14-year-old male inside one of the dorms, per the NMSP.
College police officers additionally received a call from the University of New Mexico Hospital stating that a 19-year-old male had come in with a gunshot wound and said he was shot at the UNM campus.
NMSP said in the release that their initial investigation “has determined that the incident involved four individuals who were hanging out in a dorm room in the Casas Del Rio complex.”
“At some point, for reasons still being investigated, the suspect began shooting a firearm at the other occupants in the room. The 14-year-old victim was fatally shot while the other occupants, along with the suspect, fled from the room,” the statement continued.
