Man arrested after shooting death of former wife's boyfriend on West Side

A man is accused of fatally shooting his ex-wife’s boyfriend outside a West Side apartment building early Wednesday morning.

Yojany Pacheco Hernandez, 41, of Albuquerque is charged with an open count of murder. He is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center. It is unclear if he has an attorney.

According to a criminal complaint filed at Metropolitan Court, police saw the shooting on surveillance video it received from West Mesa High School. Albuquerque Police Department spokesperson Gilbert Gallegos said detectives located Pacheco Hernandez’s vehicle through a license plate reader.

At 5 a.m., Wednesday, APD responded to a call of a homicide in the area of the 6800 block of Glenrio NW, near Interstate 40 and 72nd Street.

The complaint states when officers arrived, they found a man — later identified as Lisvany Penaranda — dead from a gunshot wound to the abdomen outside Volcanes Commons.

Police said a witness told them they heard a gunshot, then heard a “groan and rustling in nearby bushes.”

The complaint states Pacheco Hernandez’s ex-wife told police that he called her at 4:15 a.m. Wednesday. He was “very upset” with her dating Penaranda, told her she could be with any man but Penaranda and to “stay away from him.” Police said she told them they broke up several months ago.

Police said the woman told them that Penaranda was at her apartment, but left after Pacheco Hernandez called her “because he did not want there to be problems.” When she attempted to contact Penaranda, he did not respond.

According to the complaint, police saw on the video an unknown person pull up in a car outside Volcanes Commons before seeing “a flash.” The person then got back in the car and fled.

Police said they later found a text between the ex-wife and Penaranda, in which she warned him to: “Hide yourself.” “Don’t come out.” “There is going to be problems.”