Alejandro Alirez pleaded guilty last month to two counts of second-degree murder in the shooting deaths of his girlfriend, Cristal Cervantes, 34, and her grandfather, Victor Cervantes, 89. Alirez streamed
Damian Herrera, 27, was found competent July 6 and is scheduled to stand trial Oct. 2 in the death of Michael Kyte, a retired U.S. Forest Service archaeologist.
Following a sequestered competency hearing on Thursday (July 6) in the case of Damian Herrera, attorney Todd Farkas told the Taos News that the court deemed the defendant mentally competent
A judge determined during a hearing Monday that Damian Herrera, 27, will remain at New Mexico Behavioral Health Institute until a hearing to examine evidence of his mental competency.