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Man dead after being shot by Albuquerque police in Taylor Ranch
Officers head down a residential road in Taylor Ranch on Tuesday evening after police fatally shot a man in Northwest Albuquerque.
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A man is dead after getting into multiple shootouts with Albuquerque police during an alleged domestic dispute in the Taylor Ranch area on Tuesday afternoon.
Gilbert Gallegos, an Albuquerque Police Department spokesperson, said 69-year-old Sammy Jenkins died after being shot by police.
Four APD officers opened fire on Jenkins, he said. Those officers are on paid leave while the Multi-Agency Task Force investigates the shooting.
Jenkin’s family could not be reached Wednesday.
Just after 4 p.m., APD received a call for service to a home in the area of Calle Nortena and Wagon Mound NW, near Paseo del Norte, APD Chief Harold Medina said during a news conference late Tuesday night.
When officers arrived, they talked to a woman who told them there was some kind of dispute between her and the man, he said. As they interviewed her, police were trying to deal with the man, later identified as Jenkins, who may have taken pills and was suicidal.
A negotiator came and spoke to Jenkins for a little over an hour and a half, when “a volume of shots was fired,” Medina said. Jenkins then barricaded himself inside the home and started shooting through a window, hitting a police vehicle.
It is unclear who fired first.
The shooting stopped then, and five minutes later it resumed before stopping and continuing again, Medina said.
Jenkins, who was later found dead in the garage, had “little to no criminal history,” he said.
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“We are very fortunate and lucky that none of our officers were killed during the exchange of gunfire,” Medina said.
