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Albuquerque police say mother shot boyfriend and bullet also hit 7-year-old son, critically injuring child
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Police say a woman shot her boyfriend and the bullet also hit her son, critically injuring the 7-year-old, on Wednesday evening at a home in Southwest Albuquerque.
Gilbert Gallegos, an Albuquerque police spokesman, did not identify the woman but said she would be charged with child abuse.
Officers responded about 3 a.m. to a domestic dispute at a home in the 8900 block of Lower Meadow SW, near Unser and Dennis Chavez.
Gallegos said a man at the home called 911 to report that his girlfriend shot him and her son was also struck by gunfire.
He said police learned the woman shot her boyfriend in the leg but the bullet went through him and into her son.
Gallegos said the young boy was taken to the hospital in critical condition, and the Crimes Against Children Unit was investigating the incident.
The shooting comes about two weeks after 11-year-old Froylan Villegas was killed in a shooting while leaving an Isotopes baseball game with his family, a death that moved Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to declare gun violence a public health emergency and enact a ban on publicly carrying firearms in Bernalillo County.
