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Victim’s sister says she was told he bled to death
The younger sister of the man shot and killed by deputies in a North Valley mobile home last week said the Office of the Medical Investigator told her he was shot in the chest and arm and bled to death.
Deputies have not publicly identified Matthew Scudero, 50, as the man who was killed, but Darcy Scudero said she is making arrangements for his cremation.
“He did not die quickly,” she said in a phone interview from Florida on Friday. “He eventually bled out when he lost oxygen to the brain but it took a while.”
A Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman has not answered any questions since last week about the shooting. She said
instead the department will hold a news conference Monday.
Matthew Scudero was shot and killed on Nov. 10, after deputies say he fired at them from his mobile home at Village Park on 10200 Second NW.
His father had called 911 to say that Matthew had pointed a gun at him. Sheriff’s deputies say when they arrived he barricaded himself in his home and shot at them.
In a news conference a couple of hours after the shooting, Sheriff Manuel Gonzales said several deputies returned fire. They called in SWAT teams from BCSO and New Mexico State Police when they didn’t hear anything else from the home and made announcements over a loudspeaker for him to come outside.
When authorities entered the home, Matthew was dead from multiple gunshot wounds.
Gonzales said five deputies were put on standard administrative leave following the shooting. He said he did not know how much time had passed between the shooting and when they entered the home to find Matthew dead.
But Matthew’s neighbor Larry Goode told the Journal he had been at the house when deputies arrived and was sitting in the back of a police car when the shooting occurred about 10 minutes later around 8:20 a.m. Around 10:30 a.m. Undersheriff Rudy Mora told the media they were still trying to contact the suspect.
Goode said he heard them break down the door to the mobile home a couple of hours after that.