Jeriah Salas, 15, is charged with attempted armed robbery, aggravated battery and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, shooting at a motor vehicle and conspiracy in the case. Salas has been booked into the juvenile detention center. The Law Offices of the Public Defender said its attorneys were "just beginning to speak with our clients and find appropriate representation for them.
The Albuquerque Police Department said Salas shot a woman and her husband returned fire, fatally shooting Salas' accomplice, Alonzo Sanderson, Police said seven youths between the ages of 12 and 17 were involved in the robbery attempt and one of them, a year-old girl, was grazed by a bullet. APD spokesman Gilbert Gallegos said police arrested all seven of the youths, including Salas, and the other six are charged with attempted armed robbery with a deadly weapon and conspiracy.
Officers responded around a. Police found Sanderson fatally shot near a white Chevy Malibu and he died at a hospital. Police said a teen with Sanderson told detectives someone in a Jeep shot at them in the parking lot of The Ridge apartments, up the block at Copper and Tramway. At that scene, officers found two guns, bullet casings, broken glass and blood but no suspects or victims. A man called to report his wife had been shot as they sat in a Jeep outside the complex and he had driven her to a hospital, according to the complaint.
Another call came in from a woman who said her year-old daughter, who had "an apparent gunshot wound," and her friends showed up to the family's North Valley home but left before police arrived. Police said at the hospital a man told them he and his wife were parked outside a friend's apartment when two teens, one holding a gun in each hand, tried to carjack them. The man said one teen shot into the Jeep before he fired back six times with his own gun.
The man told police a teenage girl then jumped into the Jeep and began hitting him and he struck her with his gun, which had been fired empty, the complaint states. He said he then drove off and took his wife to the hospital. Police said two of the teens found with Sanderson told detectives the group was "cruising around" in the Malibu when they pulled into the complex.
