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Albuquerque police ID suspect and victim in chaotic deadly double shooting
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The Albuquerque Police Department released the names of a shooting suspect and the man he killed early Tuesday.
APD spokesperson Gilbert Gallegos said Peter Garcia, 43, was fatally shot by a security guard at an apartment complex in Northeast Albuquerque.
Prior to being killed, Garcia shot a woman and her son, 27-year-old Donald Slydell Jr., killing him, before taking the car they had been sleeping in, he said.
“At this time, we do not anticipate charging the security guard,” who killed Garcia at the end of his rampage, Gallegos said.
Slydell’s mother was shot in “the head/neck area” and she was able to speak with detectives at the hospital, he said. She has yet to be released.
It had taken days to identify the deceased due to difficulty reaching relatives for notification, he said.
At about 3:30 a.m., officers responded to a reported shooting in the area of Ponderosa NE, near Montgomery Park. Slydell, his mother and sister were sleeping in a vehicle when gunfire erupted.
The shooter, identified as Garcia, then got into the vehicle and drove away as the sister ran, leaving Slydell and the mother in the car, police said. Minutes later, Garcia crashed into a Jeep near an apartment complex on Montgomery, near Louisiana.
Police said Garcia and the driver of the Jeep got into a fight, which ended when a security guard working at the apartment complex intervened and fatally shot Garcia.
