新墨西哥州母亲被控谋杀:警方称她让10岁儿子回屋取枪、16岁邻居少女在纠纷中被射杀

美国新墨西哥州 Albuquerque 警方11月1日逮捕40岁女子 Elaina Gomez-Villeda,并以谋杀等罪名起诉她。警方称,10月31日万圣节下午,在 Tennessee Street 200号街区的一处公寓小区,她与邻居一家因音乐声过大发生冲突,其10岁儿子按她的吩咐回屋取来手枪并开枪,16岁少女 Keinerlein Rangel 被击中身亡。
根据刑事起诉书,Gomez-Villeda 当天下午约4时先敲开邻居家的门、要求对方调低音乐音量,随后双方再次争吵并演变为肢体冲突,参与者包括 Gomez-Villeda、Keinerlein 与其母亲 Susana Rangel。警方称,Gomez-Villeda 的10岁儿子也试图介入,其母随即让他「回公寓取枪」;男孩返回后开了一枪,击中 Keinerlein 头部,致其死亡。男孩未被公开身份,目前尚未被起诉,检方正与警方商讨其年龄是否涉及刑事指控。
警方称,枪响后 Gomez-Villeda 把儿子带回屋内,给丈夫发短信说「我大概马上要坐牢了」,随后拨打911报案。她在接受侦探讯问时给出了不同说法,称是自己在公寓内开的枪、当时 Keinerlein 的父亲试图强行闯入。她被控的罪名包括一项谋杀、共谋谋杀、虐待儿童、教唆未成年人犯罪、疏忽致未成年人可接触枪支、轻罪殴打与收受赃物(枪支);警方称,在现场外缴获的一把左轮手枪在全国数据库中登记为被盗枪支。上述指控尚未经法庭审理认定。
警方表示,本案仍在调查中。
New Mexico Mother Charged With Murder: Police Say She Told Her 10-Year-Old Son to Fetch a Gun Before a 16-Year-Old Neighbor Was Shot Dead
Police in Albuquerque, New Mexico, arrested Elaina Gomez-Villeda, 40, on November 1 and charged her with murder and other crimes. Police say that on the afternoon of October 31, at an apartment complex in the 200 block of Tennessee Street, a dispute with a neighbouring family over loud music turned into a fight, and that her 10-year-old son — after she told him to retrieve a handgun from their apartment — fired the shot that killed 16-year-old Keinerlein Rangel.
According to the criminal complaint, Gomez-Villeda first knocked on the neighbours' door at about 4 p.m. to ask them to turn down their music; a second argument then escalated into a physical fight involving Gomez-Villeda, Keinerlein and her mother, Susana Rangel. Police say Gomez-Villeda's 10-year-old son also tried to intervene, and that his mother then told him to get the gun from the apartment. The boy returned and fired once, striking Keinerlein in the head and killing her. The boy has not been identified and has not been charged; detectives are working with the district attorney on whether his age could bring criminal charges.
Police say that after the shot, Gomez-Villeda took her son inside, texted her husband "I'm probably going to jail right now," and then called 911. In her interview with detectives she gave a different account, saying she herself fired a gun inside the apartment as Keinerlein's father tried to force his way in. She faces charges including an open count of murder, conspiracy to commit murder, child abuse, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, negligently making a firearm accessible to a minor, misdemeanour battery and receiving stolen property (a firearm); police say a revolver recovered outside was listed in a national database as stolen. The charges have not been proven in court.
Police say the investigation is continuing.
来源:Albuquerque警察局
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