The deaths of a man and a woman whose bodies were found at a Northeast Albuquerque apartment complex on Sunday afternoon are being investigated as a murder-suicide.
Around 2 p.m. officers were called to the North Park Apartments on Montgomery near San Pedro NE for a possible drug overdose, said Gilbert Gallegos, an Albuquerque Police Department spokesman.
However when they arrived, he said, they found 18-year-old Isabella Bewley and 21-year-old William James dead from gunshot wounds.
Gallegos did not say why the call initially came in as an overdose.
But, he said, after the initial investigation, the case “appears to be a domestic violence incident that resulted in a murder-suicide.”
He said it appears that James shot Bewley and then himself.
The investigation is ongoing.
The case was the first of two homicide investigations on Sunday.
Hours later, officers were called to another apartment complex, this one on Carlisle near Constitution NE, because a woman had been beaten to death. Detectives arrested a man who was staying at the same apartment as the woman and charged him with murder.
Journal staff writer Elise Kaplan contributed to this report.
