Albuquerque Journal

APD and BCSO ID six victims

No arrests have been made in any of the January homicides

- BY MATTHEW REISEN JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

Detectives have released the names of two teen boys, three men and one woman killed in separate incidents in January around Albuquerqu­e.

Jayme Fuller, a Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoma­n, identified Matthew Lopez, 15, and Gabriel Lopez, 14, as two brothers killed in a recent West Side double homicide.

Gilbert Gallegos, an Albuquerqu­e Police Department spokesman, said the deaths of Jason Fuentes, 31, Nathaniel Stein, 36, Sadie Hill, 24, and Bryan English, 44, are being investigat­ed by the department as homicides.

No arrests have been made in any of the cases.

The first incident was Jan. 7 when police responded around 10:30 p.m. to a stabbing outside the Distillery in Downtown Albuquerqu­e. Officers found Fuentes fatally wounded. He died at the scene.

A GoFundMe for Fuentes’ funeral costs described him as “such a kind-hearted human” whose life was taken in “a senseless act.”

On Jan. 21, officers were called around 4 a.m. to a shooting near Dallas and Bell SE, south of Zuni. Police found Hill shot to death.

An online obituary said Hill was raised in New Hampshire, but had spent the past few years in Albuquerqu­e.

“She loved horses, writing, drawing, gymnastics and was drawn to helping children with disabiliti­es … Sadie will never be forgotten, always missed and forever loved,” the obituary read.

Hours after Hill was found dead, officers were called to reports of a body in a field northwest of the Flying J Travel Center on 98th Street, south of Interstate 40. Police found Stein’s body in the field.

On Jan. 25, police were called around 2 p.m. to a shooting near Mesilla and Central. Arriving officers found English dead at the scene.

Then, on Jan. 27, deputies responded to a shooting at a mobile home park in the 200 block of Atrisco Vista SW, south of Central. Deputies found Matthew Lopez dead at the scene and Gabriel critically injured.

Both had suffered multiple gunshot wounds and Gabriel Lopez was taken off life support in the days following the shooting.

Fuller-Gonzales, the BCSO spokeswoma­n, said detectives were looking for the suspects who fled from the area in a “dark-colored fourdoor sedan.”

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