Bradley House, 26, who is wanted in the Monday night shooting death of 29-year-old Daniel Morris in northwest Albuquerque allegedly over a former girlfriend, has a long history of running afoul of the law, the Albuquerque Journal reported this morning.

"This is an extremely dangerous individual," Albuquerque Police Department spokesman John Walsh told the Journal. "Throughout his life, he has shown the ability to break into vehicles, obtain firearms illegally and commit other crimes. And any time you have a (suspected) homicide offender who has demonstrated the ability to take another's life, it is always of the highest priority to bring that individual into custody."

Police believe House -- who is wanted on an open charge of murder in connection with the shooting of Morris at a house on the 1100 block of Lomas NW Monday night -- is still in the Albuquerque area, the Journal reported.

"The message to Mr. House is to give himself up before another tragedy occurs," Walsh said.

House allegedly shot Morris in the face over a woman House used to date, and the woman told police that although the two had broken up about a month and a half ago, House allegedly told her: "If I can't have you, no one can," the Journal reported.

House, the son of a Bernalillo County sheriff's deputy who had retired from APD, served little more than a year in prison from 2002 to 2003 on attempted murder and larceny charges, and was sent back to prison after a probation and parole violation in August 2003 for another 2 1/2-year stretch, the Journal reported.

He was released from prison in January 2006.

House, as a teen, also spent time in the Bernalillo County Juvenile Detention Center and was on juvenile probation on a variety of charges connected to his suspected involvement in a heavily armed, paramilitary "anti-gang, anti-government" group, the Journal reported.

5:45am 3/19/08 -- Sunday Night Shooting Victim ID'd: Police say suspect in second homicide on Monday was motivated by jealousy.

The victim in a fatal shooting Sunday night at a Northwest Albuquerque apartment complex has been identified as 25-year-old Michael Hernandez, who was shot several times on the landing of the Mesa Ridge apartments on the 3500 block of Atrisco NW, the Albuquerque Journal reported this morning.

Police say they have "very, very few leads" in Hernandez's death, but want to find a Hispanic man in his 20s, about 6 feet 1 inch tall weighing about 200 pounds, who was seen running from the complex after the shooting that took place around 10 p.m. Sunday, the Journal reported.

Meanwhile, police do have a suspect in Albuquerque's second homicide in two days (and the seventh this year) where the victim was found lying in the living room of a residence in the 1100 block of Lomas NW when officers responded to reports of gunshots around 10 p.m. Monday, according to the Journal.

Still at large late Tuesday was 26-year-old Bradley House, who has been charged with an open count of murder in Monday's shooting, the Journal said.

The victim in Monday's shooting still hasn't been identified pending notification of next of kin.

According to an arrest warrant for House, the suspect entered the victim's house to see the victim's girlfriend, who used to date House.

House shot the victim in the face, then escaped through a window, according to the warrant.

The victim's girlfriend told police that she'd stopped dating House about six weeks ago and that House since told her, "If I can't have you, no one can," according to the warrant, which also said House put the gun to her head after shooting the victim but said he "could not do it" and fled, the Journal reported. 

5:20am 3/18/08 -- Another Night, Another Homicide: Man found shot to death around 10 p.m. Monday in alley near 11th and Lomas NW.

For the second morning in a row, Albuquerque Police Department homicide detectives are on the scene of a fatal shooting, according to KOAT-TV.

Both victims are males, victims of gunshot wounds and their names have so far not been released.

Both were gunned down around 10 p.m., but in the case of the man found Monday night in an alley between 10th and 11th Sts. near Lomas NW, police say they have a suspect, who isn't in custody yet, according to Action 7 News.

So far, there is no apparent connection between last night's shooting and one that occurred about five miles to the west at a West Side apartment complex around 10 p.m. Sunday, according to KOAT-TV.

Police are still looking for leads and suspects in the shooting of a Hispanic man in his 20s on the second-floor landing of an exterior stairwell at the Mesa Ridge Apartments at 3501 Atrisco NW around 10 p.m. Sunday, the Albuquerque Journal reported this morning.

Witnesses told police they saw another Hispanic man in his 20s, wearing a black T-shirt and blue jeans, running from the scene just after shots rang out, the Journal reported.

New Mexico the third most dangerous state in the nation (after Nevada and Louisiana)?

Now, where would the research outfit Congressional Quarterly Press (which purchased that list-maker Morgan Quitno Press last year) ever get that idea?

New Mexico has ranked in the annual study's top three most dangerous states for six of the past nine years, and the report released Monday uses 2006 crime statistics reported by law enforcement agencies across the country to the FBI, according to a story in this morning's Albuquerque Journal.

But some state and local law enforcement officials are questioning the report's validity -- like Peter Olson, spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety, who told the Journal it was "a bunch of numbers that don't mean anything."

Numbers or not, there's a certain amount of anecdotal evidence that's bound to make Albuquerque residents think twice before stepping out the door -- especially around 10 at night. 

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