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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. The Albuquerque Police Department released the names of two men and a woman slain in the city over the past few weeks.
APD spokesman Gilbert Gallegos said the deaths of Kevin Miner, 58, Catherine Archuleta-Sanchez, 32, and Julian Mayes, 31, are being investigated as homicides.
No arrests have been made in the cases. So far, APD has investigated 72 homicides around the city.
The three most recent homicides happened over a ten-day period and two were shootings.
The most recent was on Sunday when officers responded around 3 a.m. to a shooting at Sierra Meadows Apartment Homes, near Eubank and Montgomery. Mayes was found shot to death at the complex.
The crash occurred at around 9:45 p.m. and involved two vehicles.
A dark colored Volvo SUV was traveling northbound on Louisiana, and a dark colored GMC pickup truck was traveling eastbound on Lomas.
The pickup had been speeding before the crash and ran a red light, crashing into the Volvo, witnesses told police.
Rescue units transported a man and a woman who had been in the Volvo to University of New Mexico Hospital, where they died. The driver of the pickup was also taken to UNMH and was listed in stable condition as of Monday morning.
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Fast forward to today.
Over the past three months, Albuquerque police have responded to two homicides and the discovery of a body found off Tramway and Interstate 40, the gateway to the old Route 66 and Four Hills neighborhood.
Two blocks west of Tramway, a far East Central trailer park was the scene of a recent FBI search of a purported gang leader’s “stash house” where agents seized seven firearms, including two shotguns and an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.
From Tramway to Eubank, the two-mile stretch of far East Central Avenue is peppered with closed businesses, sometimes aggressive transients, open displays of illegal drug use, mental illness, vandalism and trash, area residents say.
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