Police: Man in critical condition after shooting
Witness said he heard five gunshots
A man is in critical condition after being shot outside a McDonald’s Thursday evening in northwest Albuquerque, according to a police spokesman.
Albuquerque police spokesman Daren DeAguero said officers responded around 7 p.m. to the McDonald’s, near Indian School and 12th NW, and found a man who had been shot.
He said the man was at University of New Mexico Hospital in critical condition and police have no suspects in custody.
Izic Ortiz said he was waiting at the bus stop when he heard five gunshots and saw a car speed off from the parking lot on the south side of the McDonald’s. “It was (expletive) up,” he said. Ortiz said he ran over to the parking lot and there was a man, shot several times in the face, in the driver seat of a Chevy Tahoe.
He said there was another man and a teenager, who said he was the victim’s son, also in the Tahoe.
“He told me, ‘That’s my dad, that’s my dad,’ and had blood all over himself,” Ortiz said. “His buddy was holding his face, so his son didn’t see.”
He said he ran into the McDonald’s and brought out paper towels to hold against the victim’s face and stop the bleeding until police arrived.
“It was very bad,” Ortiz said. Police vehicles surrounded the south side of the McDonald’s with yellow tape strung up around them, an SUV sat in the parking lot with its driver door open and lights still on.