Looks like the cops have put out a statement this was posted to ABQ RAW a channel that covers local Albuquerque news
ABQ RAW police statement on Tophiachu carjacking/murder
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TLDW:
- officers respond to a shooting in Ponderosa (near Montgomery Park)
- shooting happened around 03:30 in the morning
- car was in the parking lot of a church and there were three adults in the vehicle
- someone approached the car, supposedly in an attempt to steal it
- shoots the driver and another woman who was inside
- the sister of the driver reported the crime and said that the shooter attempted to drag her out of the car, but she managed to get away
- the other victim who was shot is the mother of the driver
- suspect takes the car and tries to flee with the deceased male and the injured female still in the vehicle
- proceeds to crash into a black jeep within minutes
- the driver of the black jeep gets into a confrontation with the carjacker
- a security guard who works in an apartment complex nearby approached them and tried to defuse the situation
- shit escalated
- carjacker and security guard exchange fire
- carjacker gets fatally shot
- the three adults in car were male in the driver seat (brotherchu), female in the seat next to him (tophia), elderly female in the back (mamachu)
- male driver (brotherchu) is dead, elderly female(mamachu) is in the hospital, but believed to be in stable condition, tophia is ok
- insvestigation is still in progress
- some speculations about whether they were homeless or not
- jeep guy is fine
- security guard is ok too and not in custody (they took him to the hospital and released him afterwards)