On Thursday, the police said that they had apprehended two people in connection with the fatal shooting of a child who was 11 years old. This incident was the catalyst for the governor of New Mexico to adopt a controversial gun prohibition in the city of Albuquerque. The fatal shooting of 11-year-old Froylan Villegas in April, which occurred outside of a facility for minor league baseball, has been ruled a case of mistaken identification by the head of police in Albuquerque.
In a statement, the police said that Nathen Garley, age 21, and Jose Romero, age 22, had been charged with murder in connection with the event. The announcement was made public. Romero was taken into custody on Thursday outside of an Albuquerque convenience store, according to the Chief of Police of the Albuquerque Police Department, Harold Medina, who said during a news conference that Garley was already incarcerated for another offense.
During the traffic stop that led to Garley’s arrest, State Police Chief Troy Weisler informed reporters that they discovered approximately 100,000 fentanyl pills in Garley’s vehicle. Weisler said that the tablets were found in Garley’s vehicle.
What kind of results did the gun ban that the governor of New Mexico instituted get?
After leaving the Albuquerque Isotopes stadium with his family on September 6, the day before he was allegedly killed, police say Villegas was shot dead. Two days later, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham moved to temporarily suspend open-carry and concealed-carry laws in Bernalillo County, which contains Albuquerque. She cited the shooting deaths of Villegas and two young girls, ages 5 and 13, earlier this summer as her justification for taking this action.
Permit holders were allowed to retain their firearms on the premises of companies such as gun shops and ranges, while law enforcement officers and trained security guards were immune from the attempted ban in the most populous county in the state.
As part of a public health order to curb gun violence, which has been met with legal challenges and criticism, a federal court has barred the restriction. The order was issued as part of a public health order. Lujan Grisham on Friday signed an executive order that revoked licenses for carrying concealed guns in county parks and playgrounds.
According to the police, Romero and another man who had been feuding with Villegas for some time murdered him after running into one other at a baseball game. The second man, whose identity has not been released by the police at this time, was there with his family.
Reportedly captured on surveillance footage taken in the ballpark’s parking lot, the individual can be seen walking by the automobile belonging to the Villegas family. Both pickup trucks are 2019 models of the white Dodge brand.
The Villegas family didn’t hang around for long before they followed the other person out the door. The suspects followed the family’s car quite closely, and at some point, one of them is said to have gotten out, opened the sunroof, and fired rounds into the family’s vehicle while mistakenly thinking he was in his own vehicle.
“We have been informed that these criminals confused the two cars and fired into the wrong one, resulting in the death of a young man,” Medina said to the press in response to a question from the reporter.
In an Instagram message sent to Romero the day after the shooting, the individual whom the investigators suspect to have been the first target said that they had shot at the wrong car.