{"id":32154,"date":"2023-08-22T15:08:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T21:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/2-teens-arrested-2-sought-in-a-drive-by-shooting-that-killed-a-5-year-old\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:53:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:53:34","slug":"2-teens-arrested-2-sought-in-a-drive-by-shooting-that-killed-a-5-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/2-teens-arrested-2-sought-in-a-drive-by-shooting-that-killed-a-5-year-old\/","title":{"rendered":"2 teens arrested, 2 sought in a drive-by shooting that killed a 5-year-old"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"naviga-element naviga-subheadline1\">Girl mistakenly killed while she slept<\/div>\n<p>ALBUQUERQUE \u2013 Four teenagers have been charged in a drive-by shooting that mistakenly killed a 5-year-old girl as she slept inside a trailer home in southwest Albuquerque last week, authorities said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>City police said the girl wasn\u2019t targeted and a teenage boy living in the trailer with his grandmother had a feud since middle school with one of the charged teens and the dispute had escalated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not believe that this shooting was random,\u201d said Cecily Barker, a deputy chief for the police department\u2019s investigative bureau. \u201cWe determined early on that a teenager who lived at that residence was the target of the shooting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two boys, ages 15 and 16, are in custody while two brothers, ages 15 and 17, still are being sought in the murder case, police said at a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press is not naming the four teens because they are juveniles.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the teens were in two stolen vehicles that entered a mobile home park around 6 a.m. on Aug. 13.<\/p>\n<p>They say several gunshots were fired from at least one of the vehicles toward a trailer where Galilea Samaniego was sleeping with her two sisters.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Samaniego was struck in the head by a bullet and later died at a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Barker said police were able to \u201ctie cases to several incidents that involve the same juveniles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The four suspects have been charged with an open count of murder, conspiracy, shooting at a dwelling or occupied building, shooting at or from a motor vehicle, and unlawful taking of a motor vehicle, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said a fundraiser has been arranged for Samaniego\u2019s burial services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mistakenly killed while she slept ALBUQUERQUE \u2013 Four teenagers have been charged in a drive-by shooting that mistakenly killed a 5-year-old girl as she slept inside a trailer home in southwest Albuquerque last week, authorities said Monday. City police said the girl wasn\u2019t targeted and a teenage boy living in the trailer with his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[168],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-32154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-crime"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81694,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32154\/revisions\/81694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32154"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=32154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}