Teen who killed Uber driver to 'let some steam off' had held a gun to his 7-year-old brother's head while ordering him 'not to tell': Prosecutors

A New Mexico teen who was charged with randomly murdering an Uber operator present faces caller charges successful a abstracted lawsuit involving his 7-year-old brother.

The Bernalillo County District Attorney's Office said successful an Aug. 14 Facebook update that 18-year-old Sheliky Sanchez was charged with aggravated battle with a deadly weapon, kid abuse, and witnesser intimidation. Those charges stem from an alleged May incidental and were uncovered during the investigation into the homicide of Uber operator Joseph Andrus earlier this month.

According to prosecutors, Sanchez allegedly pointed a weapon astatine his 7-year-old half-brother successful May. Prosecutors elaborate the caller charges during a Wednesday detention hearing, according to section NBC affiliate KOB. During the hearing, prosecutors said that Sanchez was drunk erstwhile helium allegedly threatened the lad with the weapon and told him "not to tell," though prosecutors did not specify what prompted the threat.

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When constabulary interviewed Sanchez successful transportation with the Andrus case, helium allegedly claimed that "he had killed 3 different radical erstwhile helium was a juvenile," prosecutors said. Police person begun investigating those claims, but KOB reported they stay unverified.

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In tribunal connected Wednesday, Judge Brett Loveless said, "Holding a firearm to the caput of a 7-year-old kid is convulsive and intelligibly was disturbing to the alleged victim." Loveless ordered that Sanchez stay successful custody until trial.

Sanchez was primitively being held connected a complaint of first-degree execution successful transportation with the fatal shooting of Andrus connected Aug. 7. As Law&Crime antecedently reported, Sanchez told constabulary that helium allegedly changeable Andrus due to the fact that "he wanted to fto immoderate steam disconnected owed to 'so overmuch accent and truthful overmuch bulls—.'"