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NM Homicide NM Homicide is a news website that covers homicide cases in New Mexico, including murders, vehicular

Our goal is to cover cases that otherwise get little or no attention elsewhere, especially federal cases.

Troy Livingston is appealing his sentence for beating Tyler Lamebear to death, arguing it's above the limit set in feder...
21/12/2021

Troy Livingston is appealing his sentence for beating Tyler Lamebear to death, arguing it's above the limit set in federal sentencing guidelines.

Troy Livingston is appealing a 20-year sentence for violently beating to death Tyler Lamebear with a metal flashlight because it's above sentencing guidelines.

18/09/2021

The Los Lunas man charged with murdering a Belen veteran in 2019 has been sentenced to more than three decades in prison. Francisco Gomez, 39, pleaded guilty to and was sentenced on numerous charges — including second-degree murder — in relation to the shooting death of Matthew Gurule, 32, a Bel...

John Lodgepole will spend 7 years in prison for beating Michaelene Warren to the ground, smashing in her head with a cin...
25/08/2021

John Lodgepole will spend 7 years in prison for beating Michaelene Warren to the ground, smashing in her head with a cinderblock and then caning her ankles before she died.

District Judge Kea Riggs sentenced John Lodgepole to 7 years in prison for the brutal beating death of Michaelene Warren, 43. He beat her, smashed in her head with a cinderblock then caned her.

Sentencing for Breadsprings man, who beat girlfriend Tyler Lamebear with his feet, a flashlight and fists while his 2 1/...
05/08/2021

Sentencing for Breadsprings man, who beat girlfriend Tyler Lamebear with his feet, a flashlight and fists while his 2 1/2-year-old child was in the room, could be sentenced as early as September after the judge moved his sentencing hearing without giving a reason.

Troy Livingston won't be sentenced until Sept. 8 at the earliest at the behest of a federal judge who gave no reason after Livingston pleaded to the brutal beating death of Tyler Lamebear.

Allister Quintana's sentencing is set for Sept. 2 and this time, it's the judge who wanted the case moved, for the tenth...
29/07/2021

Allister Quintana's sentencing is set for Sept. 2 and this time, it's the judge who wanted the case moved, for the tenth time.

Although it's been close to two years since Allister Quintana pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for killing his cousin, sentencing has been delayed again.

Harrison David killed his grandson while driving drunk on an ATV outside Gallup. Prosecutors reduced the charges in a pl...
25/06/2021

Harrison David killed his grandson while driving drunk on an ATV outside Gallup. Prosecutors reduced the charges in a plea (18 year max), guaranteeing him a sentence of 5-8 years.

Harrison Davis will be sentenced to 5 to 8 years per a plea agreement that dropped his maximum sentence from 18 years to just 8, following a deadly drunk driving ATV crash killing his grandson.

20/06/2021

Authorities say a gunfight between Socorro County deputies and 'at least one' person inside a truck Thursday night led to an explosion and left one man dead and two others seriously injured in Veguita. New…

Felix Curtis, of Fruitland, faces up to eight years in prison after pleaded guilty, without a plea deal, for drunkenly k...
07/06/2021

Felix Curtis, of Fruitland, faces up to eight years in prison after pleaded guilty, without a plea deal, for drunkenly killing motorcyclist Brian Brown in 2019

Felix Curtis faces up to 8 years after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter without an agreement for killing Brian Brown in a DWI crash in September 2019.

Joshua Gutierrez will spend 12 years in prison for shooting Llewyn Platero, a father of four, killing him.
26/05/2021

Joshua Gutierrez will spend 12 years in prison for shooting Llewyn Platero, a father of four, killing him.

Joshua Gutierrez killed Llewyn Platero in 2020, shooting him in the chest, and pleaded down to voluntary manslaughter with a 12-year sentence, over the objections of Platero's mother.

John Ensor will be arraigned on May 17 in district court after he waived a preliminary hearing for an alleged DWI crash ...
11/05/2021

John Ensor will be arraigned on May 17 in district court after he waived a preliminary hearing for an alleged DWI crash that killed two Dexter girls.

John Ensor, of Roswell, had his case moved to district court after waiving a preliminary hearing for the deaths of two Dexter girls in an alleged DWI crash.

Calling all writers!NM Homicide is looking for help to cover cases, especially those of police killings and jail and in-...
08/05/2021

Calling all writers!

NM Homicide is looking for help to cover cases, especially those of police killings and jail and in-custody deaths. We have a database, we have documents, we have names and numbers. We just need help turning all that documentation into stories.

If you're interested, please send an email to NM Homicide's editor, Wheeler Cowperthwaite, at cowperthwaite at gmail dot com.

NM Homicide is launching a new project to track jail deaths in New Mexico, to write about them and to collect and disseminate as much primary-source material as possible about each death.

Allister Quintana had his sentencing moved, for the seventh time, to June 25, 2021, although it could still move further...
06/05/2021

Allister Quintana had his sentencing moved, for the seventh time, to June 25, 2021, although it could still move further out. Quintana pleaded guilty to torturing his cousin, Travis Howland, and leaving him to die in a closet.

Allister Quintana will be sentenced on June 25, 2021, at the earliest, for killing his cousin after a judge moved his sentencing hearing again.

Jagjeet Singh will not be allowed to leave his home state of Indiana, except to pick up his semi-trailer, after being ar...
30/04/2021

Jagjeet Singh will not be allowed to leave his home state of Indiana, except to pick up his semi-trailer, after being arraigned on charges related to an alleged fatal hit-and-run crash in January that killed Jessica Ann Copey and her unnamed infant.

Jagjeet Singh will be allowed to pick up his semi-trailer in New Mexico and drive it back to Indiana and drive around his home state pending trial for an alleged fatal hit-and-run that killed two.

Tavor Tom stabbed Roberta Clyde 75 times, stole her Jeep Cherokee, then crashed it into a fence after stealing Mucinex f...
26/04/2021

Tavor Tom stabbed Roberta Clyde 75 times, stole her Jeep Cherokee, then crashed it into a fence after stealing Mucinex from a store.

Tavor Tom previously pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for stabbing Roberta Clyde to death and he faced a possible maximum sentence of life in prison.

John Lodgepole pleaded guilty to beating Michealene Warren to death and prosecutor Raquel Ruiz-Velez gave him a plea dea...
22/04/2021

John Lodgepole pleaded guilty to beating Michealene Warren to death and prosecutor Raquel Ruiz-Velez gave him a plea deal of six to eight years. She asked a judge to sentence him to seven.

Prosecutor Raquel Ruiz-Velez is asking for a seven-year sentence for John Lodgepole after he pleaded guilty to beating Michaelene Warren to death in Nenahnezad.

John Ensor allegedly crashed into two Dexter girls while drunk or high and they died in their car after it burst into fl...
21/04/2021

John Ensor allegedly crashed into two Dexter girls while drunk or high and they died in their car after it burst into flames. Now he's being held without bail pending trial.

John Ensor will stay in jail pending trial after he allegedly crashed into Danae, 17, and Darley Sosa, 12, on State Road 2 in Dexter. Bystanders couldn't get them out of their car before it burned.

Larrison Hunch is accused of beating  Alvin Adakai, 62, to death in a motel in Gallup.
09/04/2021

Larrison Hunch is accused of beating Alvin Adakai, 62, to death in a motel in Gallup.

Larrison Hunch's murder case has been stayed after his attorney raised the question of his competency to stand trial, following an evaluation by a neuropsychologist.

31/03/2021

Jagjeet Singh is facing just one charge of knowingly leaving the scene in district court for allegedly running over Jessica Copey and her infant on I-40, west of Gallup in January.

30/03/2021

Eric Garcia's attorney raised competency for the March 9 stabbing death of a man in Smith Lake, saying his client has the mindset and cognitive ability of a 5-year-old child.

29/03/2021

Larrison Hunch is charged with second-degree murder for allegedly beating Alvin Adakai on May 16, 2020, at a motel room in Gallup. His case is pending.

27/03/2021

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of an Albuquerque woman who was shot in the back by New Mexico State Police while fleeing officers in 2014. The ruling — whic...

Tavor Tom's sentencing is set for April 7. He is asking for 7 years while prosecutors want 17 for the stabbing death of ...
19/03/2021

Tavor Tom's sentencing is set for April 7. He is asking for 7 years while prosecutors want 17 for the stabbing death of aunt Roberta Clyde.

Tavor Tom will ask for a 7-year sentence on April 7, 2021 for stabbing his aunt to death while prosecutors will argue for a sentence of 17.5 years for the killing.

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