Man accused of fatally shooting man during road rage incident

A man was arrested on Thursday after allegedly gunning down a man in Northeast Albuquerque in 2024 with a gun used during a drive-by shooting in the Coronado mall parking lot in February.

Nassir Williams, 17, is charged with an open count of murder and conspiracy in the 2024 fatal shooting of Jose Gonzalez, 32.

Williams' criminal complaint has been sealed.

At 12:27 a.m. Sept. 15, Gonzalez was fatally shot near Eubank and Copper NE, according to an October Albuquerque Metro Crime Stoppers social media post.

Video surveillance from a nearby business showed a bright light coming from a black Chrysler 300 pointing at a Dodge Ram as both vehicles headed south on Eubank, Albuquerque Police Department spokesperson Gilbert Gallegos said in a news release. Gonzalez, who was in the front passenger seat of the pickup, was shot several times during the road rage incident before being taken to a local hospital where he died, he said.

After Crime Stoppers issued a bulletin, detectives learned about a 16-year-old who had been dropped off at another hospital the night of the shooting, Gallegos said. The person who dropped him off was connected to Williams, who was 16 at the time, he said.

Detectives later found two firearms used to shoot Gonzalez, according to police. Williams sold one of the firearms, "possibly both," Gallegos said.

One of the guns was used in the Feb. 19 drive-by shooting inside the Coronado mall parking lot, he said. Jabsie Lewis, 18, pleaded not guilty to shooting at or from a vehicle, conspiracy and criminal damage over $1,000 in that case, according to court records. No one was injured in that shooting.

In that incident, detectives found three firearms inside an apartment, including one used in the Gonzalez shooting, Gallegos said.

He said police used phone and social media data to find the Chrysler from the September incident.

"Evidence was discovered inside the vehicle that further connected the vehicle to the shooting," Gallegos said.