Two cousins are accused of opening fire on each other outside a funeral home Friday, sending family members fleeing and leaving a bystander wounded.
Keon Harris and Geno Walters, both 27, are charged with dueling and other felonies, including aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, shooting at or from a motor vehicle and shooting at an occupied dwelling.
Police spokesman Gilbert Gallegos said Harris surrendered to detectives at a home in Southeast Albuquerque on Wednesday. Police found a .45-caliber pistol during a search.
Gallegos said a warrant has been issued for Walters’ arrest.
According to a criminal complaint filed in Metropolitan Court: Officers responded around 10 a.m. to a shooting in the parking lot of Daniels funeral home at 1100 Coal SE, near Interstate 25. The spray of bullets went through several vehicles and at least one home and left one man hospitalized after he was shot in the buttocks.
Family members told police they were gathered in the parking lot before a funeral when Harris and Walters got into an altercation that ended with both men shooting at each other.
The man who was injured told police he was sitting in his vehicle when he heard gunfire and got out of the car to “see what was happening” and was “struck in the buttocks.”
Another man was inside a nearby home when a bullet went into the home, hitting him with glass debris.
The security camera video showed Harris and Walters “walk to the parking lot and both engage in a duel with deadly weapons.”
The video led police to believe it was Walter’s bullets that struck several vehicles, the house and the man.
Last edited by mudhen; 06/11/20.
