Homicide suspect arrested after reportedly stealing friend's car in NE Albuquerque

A man arrested for allegedly stealing a vehicle is also accused of gunning down a man in Northeast Albuquerque in 2023.

Jarrett Chacon, 27, of Albuquerque, was arrested Friday and charged with auto theft and resisting, evading or obstructing an officer.

Chacon is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center.

At 2:18 p.m. Friday, the Albuquerque Police Department responded to a call of a theft in the 300 block of Dallas SE, near Copper.

When officers arrived, a woman told them Chacon stole her car after she allowed him to stay at her place, according to a criminal complaint filed at Metropolitan Court.

Officers identified Chacon as the driver of the stolen car in the area of Zuni and San Pablo, police said. Police later found the car in the 300 block of Dallas where Chacon got out and ran into an alley where he was arrested, according to the complaint.

The woman told police Chacon had a warrant out for an open count of murder in the April 4, 2023, fatal shooting of Larry Norsworthy, 60. Chacon was also charged with aggravated burglary in the 2023 case.

In the homicide, Chacon was identified through video surveillance, police said.

At 12:35 p.m. April 4, 2023, officers responded to a call of an unattended death in the 200 block of Charleston SE, near Central, and two-tenths of a mile away from where Chacon was arrested Friday.

When police arrived, according to the complaint, a man told them he found his father — later identified as Norsworthy — dead on the bathroom floor. The Office of the Medical Investigator initially said it was an unattended death before later calling it a homicide due to blunt trauma to the chest.

The complaint states the victim’s son told police he saw a man with a woman — later identified as Jasmine Trujillo, 30, of Alcalde, and Chacon — inside his dad’s SUV. He told police they fled after he made eye contact with them. The SUV was later found at an apartment on Monroe, near San Mateo, along with Norsworthy’s stolen bank cards, police said.

According to the complaint, on April 2, Norsworthy told police Trujillo had stolen his SUV. The same day, police said, a person told them Trujillo — who had been staying in the victim’s apartment after being evicted — said because Norsworthy changed the codes to his phone app, she and Chacon were going to go into the victim’s apartment “and beat his bank codes out of him so they could steal his Social Security payment.”

The complaint states that on April 3, Norsworthy’s neighbor told police he was awoken by “a loud crashing noise” coming from the apartment. Police said he told them they heard Norsworthy say, “Get off me, damn, get off me, damn,” before seeing two people leave the apartment.

During a 2023 interview with Trujillo at MDC, police said she told them Chacon “must have done it and not told her about it.”

Trujillo is charged with first- degree murder and aggravated battery. Her trial starts in September, according to court records.