Police ID man killed at Crossroads Motel
No arrests made in the fatal shooting
Albuquerque police have identified the man who was shot and killed in the parking lot of the Crossroads Motel on Monday night as 43-year-old Leroy Zamora.
No arrests have been made.
Officer Simon Drobik, an APD spokesman, said in an email that police were called to the motel on Central near Interstate 25 around 10:30 p.m. for a shooting. When they arrived they found Zamo- ra had been shot.
He was taken to the University of New Mexico Hospital, where he died. Zamora was shot across the street from Presbyterian Hospital but shooting victims are taken to UNMH, which is a Level 1 trauma center.
Homicide detectives interviewed people staying at the motel and crime scene investigators processed the scene.
Drobik said they have “limited offender information at this time.”
Brianna Pinzon, Zamora’s wife, said a stranger contacted her Tuesday morning to say he had found Zamora’s wallet — with her name and number inside as an emergency contact — at the scene of the shooting.
Pinzon said she doesn’t know who her husband was with or what he was doing when he got shot. Now she’s asking around the neighborhoods where Zamora hung out in southeast Albuquerque trying to find out what happened.
“See what the word is around town,” she said. “Leroy was known by a lot of people. Basically just everyone is giving their condolences. That’s the way the hood is — you don’t see and you don’t tell.”
Pinzon said she has known Zamora — her older brother’s best friend — since she was seven years old and they have been a couple for the past five years. They have a 4-year-old son together.
“He was funny,” Pinzon sai. “He never stopped making me laugh the whole time we were together — making jokes, singing songs, just being funny.”
Now she is raising money to pay for his funeral.