Posted on 03/25/2024 10:43:26 AM PDT by CedarDave
Albuquerque police say a woman trying to protect her 4-yearold grandchild shot an auto theft suspect who twice broke into her home demanding car keys Friday night in the North Valley.
Joseph Rivera, 32, is charged with burglary, attempted burglary and auto theft. Rivera is currently on pretrial release in a July 2023 case in which he was found in a stolen vehicle with fentanyl, cocaine and heroin on him, according to court records.
On Friday, around 8 p.m., police tried to pull over a stolen truck near Central and Cypress and used spike strips to flatten the tires, according to a criminal complaint filed in Metropolitan Court. Police said the driver fled with the truck “on its rims” and crashed it into a curb near Candelaria and Rio Grande NW.
Around 9:30 p.m., a woman called 911 and said she had shot a man in her home ... Police said the woman told them she was with her 4-year-old grandson when she heard someone inside the home. She said she confronted the man, who “appeared to be angry” and told her he “just needed her keys.”
The woman told police she thought about arming herself then but “did not know if she had time to use the weapon” if he also had a gun ... The woman said Rivera took several keys and left.
Police said the woman told them she then grabbed a gun and took her grandchild into the bedroom. She said she then found Rivera back in her hallway, “demanding more keys.”
The woman told police she pointed the gun at Rivera and “told him to get out” but he began approaching her instead, according to the complaint. She said she was scared “he would kill her or her grandchild” and she shot him once.
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Many states provide defenses against such cases by criminals. Not sure if New Mexico does but given it’s a blue state don’t expect so. Anyone know?
Sorry but the people and system are so degenerate that it could happen, God forbid.
Many times good people and good actions such as mercy attract evil forces to them.
A case in the news recently that is greatly upsetting to me:
Kaylee Gains who was attacked and had her head repeatedly smashed into the concrete and had bleeding in her brain, a skull fracture and was comatose.
The family of her attacker is pushing in the news media for it to be “self-defense” against the smaller and weaker girl Kaylee Gains.
No shame for their lies.
If someone doesn’t believe me:
https://nypost.com/2024/03/21/us-news/family-of-girl-charged-in-brutal-on-camera-beating-of-kaylee-gain-start-fundraiser-claim-she-was-bullied/
Continuing prayers up for Kaylee Gains and her loved ones.🙏
I’ve unfortunately have been to Albuquerque a number of times to conduct depositions. Albuquerque is the very embodiment of a dirty old town.
Cops do it all the time.
Keep that heart pump’n.
Will Grisham issue an order making it illegal to carry...in one’s own home?
Well the Perp was bleeding all over
Her Nice carpet !
“Every calculation based on experience elsewhere falls in New Mexico.”
Lew Wallace, civil war general, author of Ben Hur, and territorial Governor of New Mexico.
Abluelita will be just fine.
Fails
Maybe she didn’t want to clean up the mess if he bled out.
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