10-year-old boy shoots 16-year-old girl dead during a fight over loud music — now his mother is facing charges, cops say

A New Mexico pistillate is down bars aft her 10-year-old lad allegedly changeable a 16-year-old miss dead during a combat implicit large euphony astatine an flat complex.

Elaina Gomez-Villeda is charged with murder, conspiracy to perpetrate a felony, kid abuse, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, negligently making a firearm accessible to a minor, artillery and receiving stolen property, jailhouse records show.

The shooting happened astir 4 p.m. Saturday successful the 200 artifact of Tennessee Street successful Albuquerque. A transgression ailment obtained by section ABC affiliate KOAT said Gomez-Villeda went to her neighbors' flat to inquire them to crook down the music. The miss was identified arsenic Keinerlein Rangel.

This led to a fistfight betwixt the neighbors, Keinerlein Rangel and her mother, and Gomez-Villeda. The 10-year-old lad tried to intervene, and his parent allegedly told him to "retrieve a weapon from their apartment," cops wrote.

According to police, the lad grabbed the weapon and walked backmost extracurricular earlier helium fired astatine slightest 1 changeable astatine Keinerlein, sidesplitting her. Gomez-Villeda and the lad went backmost wrong the apartment.

Arriving constabulary officers heard a gunshot from wrong the apartment. Gomez-Villeda allegedly came extracurricular holding a gun, and 1 serviceman changeable astatine her but missed. She dropped the weapon and cops took her into custody.

In an interrogation with police, the suspect claimed she was the 1 who fired the changeable successful the apartment. She said Keinerlein's begetter was trying to unit his mode inside. She called 911.

"I thought we were gonna die; these people, they bash it a lot, and I didn't deliberation I was gonna beryllium the target, but it is what it is," she said, according to ABQRaw.com.

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She besides texted her husband, "I'm astir apt going to jailhouse close now," according to the complaint.

Authorities are inactive deciding whether to record transgression charges against the 10-year-old boy. His parent remains astatine the Metropolitan Detention Center without bond.