New Mexico mom warned neighbors her son, 10, is going to shoot you before he killed teen over noise dispute fight
A New Mexico mom whose 10-year-old son shot and killed their 16-year-old neighbor allegedly warned the family that the boy was “going to shoot you” over the noise dispute.Elaina Gomez-Villeda, 40, appeared in Bernalillo County court Friday after she was charged over the chaotic melee that turned deadly outside her Albuquerque apartment around 4 p.m.
on Halloween, KRQE reported.Albuquerque Police Detective Chase Jewell testified that Gomez-Villeda “is heard saying ‘get the gun’” on security footage of the shooting, and that she warned her neighbors her son was “going to shoot you, look he’s going to shoot someone” before the killing.Gomez-Villeda faces charges of murder, conspiracy to commit murder, child abuse, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, negligently making a firearm accessible to a minor, misdemeanor battery and receiving stolen property.Gomez-Villeda’s defense attorney, Roberta Yurcic, said the boy grabbed the gun after his mother was attacked with a drill and injured — and argued that her client never told him to open fire.“Despite the state really wanting those words to have been spoken, they’re not, by the detective’s review, she never tells him to shoot,” Yurcic said.Judge Joseph Montaño rejected the defense’s arguments and ordered Gomez-Villeda to remain jailed, saying she posed a danger to the community — and expressing alarm that her 10-year-old appeared comfortable handling a gun, the outlet reported.“The fact that a 10-year-old is able to manipulate a revolver in the fashion in the video,” Montaño said.“How can the court fashion conditions of release for circumstances like this?”The confrontation began as Gomez-Villeda and her son were returning home from a Halloween event and loud music from a next-door apartment sparked an argument.
Security video obtained by the outlet shows Gomez-Villeda — appearing to be wearing a Day of the Dead costume — asking the neighbors to turn it down before a ...