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Officials: 15-year-old kills 5 inside NM home
by The Associated Press
Jan 20, 2013 | 2606 views | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend | print
BCSO deputies and crime scene personnel work the scene of a five person homicide on Long Lane SW, in Albuquerque, NM, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013. Authorities said a teenage boy fatally shot two adults and three children at a home near Albuquerque. (AP Photo/Albuquerque Journal, Pat Vasquez-Cunningham)
BCSO deputies and crime scene personnel work the scene of a five person homicide on Long Lane SW, in Albuquerque, NM, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013. Authorities said a teenage boy fatally shot two adults and three children at a home near Albuquerque. (AP Photo/Albuquerque Journal, Pat Vasquez-Cunningham)
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Bernalillo County authorities are stationed outside a home south of Albuquerque, N.M., on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013, where two adults and three children were found shot to death. Authorities say a teenager has been arrested and booked on murder and other charges in connection with the shootings. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
Bernalillo County authorities are stationed outside a home south of Albuquerque, N.M., on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013, where two adults and three children were found shot to death. Authorities say a teenager has been arrested and booked on murder and other charges in connection with the shootings. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
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Bernalillo County Sheriff Dan Houston holds a news conference on the five person homicide on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013. Authorities said a teenage boy fatally shot two adults and three children at a home near Albuquerque. (AP Photo/Albuquerque Journal, Pat Vasquez-Cunningham)
Bernalillo County Sheriff Dan Houston holds a news conference on the five person homicide on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013. Authorities said a teenage boy fatally shot two adults and three children at a home near Albuquerque. (AP Photo/Albuquerque Journal, Pat Vasquez-Cunningham)
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A 15-year-old boy fatally shot two adults and three children at a home near Albuquerque, authorities said Sunday.

The teenager was arrested on murder and other charges in connection with the shootings Saturday night at the home in a rural area 10 miles southwest of downtown Albuquerque, Bernalillo County sheriff's spokesman Aaron Williamson said.

The victims' identities haven't been released, and the boy's motive and connection to the five victims weren't immediately known. Williamson said investigators were trying to determine if the victims were related.

"We are trying to identify the victims," Williamson said.

Each victim suffered more than one gunshot wound, he said.

Investigators also were trying to determine who owned several guns that were found at the home, one of which was a semi-automatic military-style rifle.

Authorities declined to release details of any conversation that the 15-year-old had with investigators.

The teenager was booked on two counts of murder and three counts of child abuse resulting in death.

On Sunday, a police roadblock cut off public access to the narrow dirt road that leads to the home.

Detectives were still processing the crime scene Sunday afternoon.

Peter Gomez, a 54-year-old carpenter who lives about 200 yards from the home, said he saw police vehicles and ambulances arrive Saturday night.

Gomez said he doesn't know the family that lives at the house, but he has seen a married couple and their two boys and two girls from time to time.

"It's a horrible thing," Gomez said. "You see all this stuff that happens all over the country, the shootings in the schools and theaters, and then it happens right here. It's sad."
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