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Police fatally shoot man in Albuquerque mobile home park
Incident was first Albuquerque police shooting of 2026
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Police fatally shot a commercial burglary suspect during a foot chase Saturday morning at a mobile home park in Southeast Albuquerque.
Cecily Barker, interim chief for the Albuquerque Police Department, said the man had a gun but did not fire it during the incident. She said “at least one” officer fired at the man, killing him.
No officers were injured.
It was the first Albuquerque police shooting of 2026. Last year APD officers shot at 15 people and, of those, 11 were killed.
Saturday’s incident began with a call about a burglary.
Barker said around 9:30 a.m. a shipping facility in the 1100 block of Cochiti SE reported being robbed by a man with a gun “in his back pocket.” Employees told police the suspect and another man loaded several packages into a truck and fled.
She said officers were able to track down the suspect vehicle and found it near a mobile home park less than a mile away, southeast of Juan Tabo and Central. Two men fled from the vehicle and officers gave chase as one of the men tried and failed to carjack a passing driver.
Barker said “at least one witness” saw the suspect with a gun in his hand. She said one officer who was chasing the man tried to use a Taser to stop him but was unsuccessful.
“At least one officer fired his firearm,” Barker said. The suspect died at the scene.
She said the second man, who was allegedly driving the vehicle used in the burglary, is in custody.
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The Multi-Agency Task Force is investigating the shooting.
