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'Desperate' police appeal for help after 4-year-old killed in Albuquerque road rage incident
October 21, 2015
Albuquerque police issued a "desperate" appeal for witnesses Wednesday after a cold-blooded shooter drove up alongside a car in early rush hour traffic and opened fire, killing a 4-year-old girl as her horrified parents watched in an apparent case of road rage.
“We are in desperate need of info to help us resolve the conflicting information we’re getting right now," Police Chief Gordon Eden said. "We’re begging for the community’s help.”
The killer was going west on Interstate 40 within city limits and pulled up alongside the car the unidentified child was riding in and opened fire around 3 p.m., shooting the child in the head. The child's heartbroken father told police it was a case of road rage.
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"We have absolutely no suspect information at this time," Drobik added, echoing Eden's plaintive appeal. "We need the community's help. You had to have seen something. Please call us."
The child's parents, who were both in the car, were apparently unable to identify the assailant, and police initially received conflicting details about the gunman's vehicle, including its color and even whether it had two or four doors. A red pickup truck which appeared to have a bullet hole in the rear window was seen pulled over on the interstate, which was shut down, but police would not confirm it was involved.
A woman who said she was on the road at the time of the incident told KOB-TV she saw a red truck driving erratically on I-40, and believes she saw the early stages of the tragic incident.
"We were actually behind the two vehicles that were in the middle of the road rage incident: red truck, red sedan," Jonelle Tafoya told the station. "The red truck was not allowing the red car to pass [and] kept swerving from lane to lane to keep the vehicle behind them."
Tafoya said she exited the highway out of fear something bad would happen
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"I got the notification that something had occurred on my phone that a child had been shot in the head at Unser and I-40, and all I could think was, 'Oh my God. That was it exactly. That was probably the road rage incident we had seen.'"
The girl's father pulled over after the incident, and a Bernalillo County Sheriff's deputy arrived on the scene to find the child inside, Drobik said. The girl was rushed to University of New Mexico Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
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The shooting comes after a road-rage shooting last month in Albuquerque in which police say a man fired at another driver in self-defense. The Sept. 9 shooting that wounded 34-year-old Jacoby Johnson was being reviewed by the District Attorney's Office. A month earlier, a driver used a camera to record another motorist brandishing a gun at him on I-25 in Albuquerque, resulting in felony charges for the suspect.
Full Article:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/10/2...-in-road-rage-shooting-on-new-mexico-freeway/
October 21, 2015
Albuquerque police issued a "desperate" appeal for witnesses Wednesday after a cold-blooded shooter drove up alongside a car in early rush hour traffic and opened fire, killing a 4-year-old girl as her horrified parents watched in an apparent case of road rage.
“We are in desperate need of info to help us resolve the conflicting information we’re getting right now," Police Chief Gordon Eden said. "We’re begging for the community’s help.”
The killer was going west on Interstate 40 within city limits and pulled up alongside the car the unidentified child was riding in and opened fire around 3 p.m., shooting the child in the head. The child's heartbroken father told police it was a case of road rage.
[...]
"We have absolutely no suspect information at this time," Drobik added, echoing Eden's plaintive appeal. "We need the community's help. You had to have seen something. Please call us."
The child's parents, who were both in the car, were apparently unable to identify the assailant, and police initially received conflicting details about the gunman's vehicle, including its color and even whether it had two or four doors. A red pickup truck which appeared to have a bullet hole in the rear window was seen pulled over on the interstate, which was shut down, but police would not confirm it was involved.
A woman who said she was on the road at the time of the incident told KOB-TV she saw a red truck driving erratically on I-40, and believes she saw the early stages of the tragic incident.
"We were actually behind the two vehicles that were in the middle of the road rage incident: red truck, red sedan," Jonelle Tafoya told the station. "The red truck was not allowing the red car to pass [and] kept swerving from lane to lane to keep the vehicle behind them."
Tafoya said she exited the highway out of fear something bad would happen
[...]
"I got the notification that something had occurred on my phone that a child had been shot in the head at Unser and I-40, and all I could think was, 'Oh my God. That was it exactly. That was probably the road rage incident we had seen.'"
The girl's father pulled over after the incident, and a Bernalillo County Sheriff's deputy arrived on the scene to find the child inside, Drobik said. The girl was rushed to University of New Mexico Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
[...]
The shooting comes after a road-rage shooting last month in Albuquerque in which police say a man fired at another driver in self-defense. The Sept. 9 shooting that wounded 34-year-old Jacoby Johnson was being reviewed by the District Attorney's Office. A month earlier, a driver used a camera to record another motorist brandishing a gun at him on I-25 in Albuquerque, resulting in felony charges for the suspect.
Full Article:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/10/2...-in-road-rage-shooting-on-new-mexico-freeway/
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