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State Police arrest suspect in fatal shooting on New Mexico Tech campus
Authorities lock down portions of New Mexico Tech after a shooting left one person dead Wednesday.
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A standoff at a home in Magdalena late Friday ended with the arrest of a suspect in the fatal shooting of a man on the New Mexico Tech campus.
New Mexico State Police detained 21-year-old Anthony Alvarado “following a nearly 48-hour manhunt aided by the Socorro Police Department,” according to a news release.
The release states that around 8 p.m. State Police SWAT officers “surrounded the home and initiated callouts ordering Alvarado to surrender.”
“After an approximately one-and-a-half-hour standoff, Alvarado exited the residence and was taken into custody without further incident,” according to the release.
Alvarado is charged with an open count of murder, shooting at a motor vehicle, child abuse and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in the death of Quentin Sisneros, 22.
The shooting unfolded Wednesday night.
Around 9 p.m., Socorro police received reports of a shooting on the New Mexico Tech campus and found Sisneros fatally shot, according to court records. Witnesses told police Alvarado was armed with a rifle and confronted a teenager in the parking lot.
Police said witnesses told them the teen’s cousin had slept with the mother of Alvarado’s child. During the confrontation, a black sedan — similar to the one driven by the teen’s cousin — drove by.
Witnesses told police Alvarado fired numerous times at the car, fatally striking the driver, Sisneros, before running away, according to court records.
“Investigators do not believe Sisneros was the individual involved in the prior relationship with Alvarado’s girlfriend, indicating this may have been a case of mistaken identity,” State Police wrote in a prior release.
