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Albuquerque police investigate possible murder-suicide and separate homicide
The Albuquerque Police Department investigates a possible murder-suicide on Tuesday in the 3000 block of Toreador, near Candelaria and Tramway.
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The Albuquerque Police Department is investigating three deaths — including a "possible murder-suicide" involving an elderly couple — that happened within hours of each other.
At about 10 a.m. Tuesday, a woman told police she found two relatives in their late 80s dead at a home in the 3000 block of Toreador, near Candelaria and Tramway NE.
When officers arrived, they found the woman dead in the house and her husband in the garage, APD spokesperson Gilbert Gallegos said.
"It appears that the male killed his wife inside the home," he said.
Gallegos did not say what weapon was used in the incident, but said "I don't think a firearm was involved in their deaths." He added that police found a note, but he did not disclose what it said.
Detectives are interviewing family members, Gallegos said.
Several hours earlier, at about 3 a.m., police responded to a call of a shooting in an alley behind a building in the 9200 block of Central, near Wyoming. When they arrived, they found a woman in her mid-30s who had been shot.
The woman was taken to a local hospital where she died, Gallegos said.
There are no suspects and homicide detectives are investigating both cases, he said.
