Car linked to shootings impounded

Officers saw the Challenger at about 10:20 p.m. Friday and attempted to make a traffic stop in the area of Airport and South Meadows roads, just east of the mobile home park, Champlin said, but the vehicle fled.

A short time later, a sheriff ’s deputy spotted the vehicle abandoned in a field near N.M. 599 and Via Veteranos.

“The vehicle was freshly spray-painted,” Champlin said.

Police found a man and two teen boys — who Champlin said were sweating and appeared to have just finished running — walking a short distance away. At least one of them was interviewed by police “and admitted to being inside of the vehicle,” Champlin said.

The Challenger was impounded as potential evidence, he said.

Police are still investigating whether the three were involved in the shootings, Champlin said, adding he didn’t did know if they had been at the mobile home park Friday night.

“Their involvement in the Country Club shootings, if at all, is to be determined,” he said.

According to online jail records, Awawd was booked into Santa Fe County jail at about 3 a.m. Saturday on a probation violation.

Online court records show Awawd was charged in November

with shooting at a home or occupied building in Santa Fe County. He pleaded guilty in April to charges of conspiracy and criminal damage to property and was sentenced to three years of probation and $4,000 in restitution to the victim.

A probation officer filed a report in court Friday saying Awawd had violated his probation May 5 when a routine drug test showed a positive result for cocaine and THC, the psychoactive substance in marijuana. And on June 5, the report said, Awawd failed to report for his monthly check-in to the probation office.