Albuquerque police investigate 2 overnight homicides

Albuquerque police investigates 2 overnight homicides

Albuquerque police are investigating two overnight homicides Saturday.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Albuquerque police are investigating two homicides that happened at separate apartment complexes Saturday. 

According to APD, officers were called out to the Cinnamon Tree apartments Friday night on Central near Louisiana. 

Police say Alexander DeHerrera and Alyssa Esquibel were shot, and DeHerrera later died. Esquibel was transported to the hospital.

U.S. Marshals on May 21 arrested 27-year-old Euphemia Rivas and 26-year-old Jacob Romero and charged them each with an open count of murder.

Police say Rivas was living at the Cinnamon Tree apartments and was hanging out with Esquibel, her sister. Esquibel later told detectives she called DeHerrera, her boyfriend, to pick her up from the apartment. They left the apartment but then returned, which is when Esquibel stayed in the vehicle while DeHerrera went inside.

About five minutes later, police allege DeHerrera ran out and said, “We gotta go.” As he put the car in reverse, Rivas allegedly came up to the car and grabbed onto the front passenger window. Then a man came out and was ordered by Rivas to “shoot,” which he did.

He shot multiple times, fatally wounding DeHerrera and wounding Esquibel. DeHerrera died at the hospital.

The man was identified as Jacob Romero. He took off for Chama and then to Alamosa, Colo., where they were arrested.

Hours after that, APD was called out to a deadly shooting at another apartment complex near Tramway and Copper. 

Police say one person was found dead, and another was taken into custody. 

APD detectives are trying to piece together what lead up to this shooting.

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