EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was published online Monday and in Tuesday morning's print edition of The New Mexican. Since publication, the second shooting victim has died. To read Tuesday's updated story, CLICK HERE.
Tuesday morning, police were still searching for a man with a violent
criminal past who they believe shot and killed a teenage boy and
critically injured a woman.
Santa Fe County Sheriff's Department investigators said Arthur
Samuel Anaya, 54, may have fled the area on foot after the shooting at
about 1 p.m. near the intersection of Old Galisteo Road and Paseo
Galisteo, which is off Rabbit Road south of Interstate 25.
Police said the teenager, identified by a family member as Austin
Urban, was killed in the shooting and a woman between the ages of 40 and
50 also was shot and was being treated late Monday at Christus St.
Vincent Regional Medical Center.
"At this point, we don't know what the relation between the victims is," said Maj. Ken Johnson of the sheriff's department.
The boy's mother, Angela Urban, buckled at the knees and fell back
into a black Chevrolet Cavalier she had been sitting in near the home
when a group of officers told her that her son was dead.
Police had blocked off roadways around the home for nearly five
hours Monday as they searched for Anaya and investigated the crime
scene.
Johnson said Anaya owns the property where the shooting occurred.
Investigators had not confirmed the cause of the argument that led to
the shooting, he said, adding that when officers arrived, the teenager
was found dead, and the woman was injured.
Hospital spokesman Arturo Delgado said the woman arrived at the
hospital with a head injury at 1:15 p.m. Her condition was not released
late Monday.
A neighbor, who asked to remain anonymous, said he received a call
shortly after 1 p.m. alerting him that the neighborhood had been
barricaded.
"They said Arthur was on the run again," the man said.
Anaya spent time in prison after a mini crime spree in the 1990s
that included two counts of armed robbery, two counts of false
imprisonment, three counts of aggravated burglary, two counts of
aggravated assault, attempted armed robbery, aggravated burglary,
battery of a police officer, tampering with evidence and being a felon
in possession of a handgun.
In 2005, State District Judge Michael Vigil sentenced Anaya to 18
years in prison for the early-'90s crime spree. At the time of his
arrest in the '90s, Anaya was deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial
and was housed in a state facility in Las Vegas, N.M., until his trial
in 2005, when he was ruled competent enough to stand trial and was
convicted on numerous felony charges.
Anaya was given credit for 10 years already served in custody before
the trial. Of the eight remaining years on his sentence, he was allowed
to get consideration for "good time" served, meaning he was eligible
for release after four of the remaining eight years of the sentence.
At the 2005 sentencing hearing, Dr. Bianca Martinez, chief of mental
health services for the New Mexico Department of Corrections, said
Anaya suffered a serious head injury in 1992 that caused him to have
problems with judgment and impulsiveness.
She said he doesn't suffer from mental illness, but rather from a
neurological condition that likely wouldn't respond to rehabilitation.
"Once those parts of the brain are gone, there's not much that you can do," Martinez said at the 2005 sentencing hearing.
On Monday, officers from both the sheriff's department and the city
police department went door to door in the neighborhood around Anaya's
home, searching for the man.
"Our job is to make sure we do the best possible investigation, and
our officers are out here doing the best job we possibly can, to ensure
that everything is processed correctly and done correctly so that we'll
have a strong crime scene," Johnson said. "We're checking the area
thoroughly."
Monday night, Johnson confirmed the department had alerted police
agencies in surrounding areas, including Albuquerque, that Anaya may be
headed in that direction, as he has family there. They also believe he
may have been driving a white 1983 Oldsmobile sedan. A search of Anaya's
home was expected to be completed by Tuesday morning.
People with information on Anaya's whereabouts are asked to call
sheriff's department Detective Josh David at 986-2490 or the
department's nonemergency dispatch number, 428-3720.
Nico Roesler can be reached at 986-3089 or
nroesler@sfnewmexican.com. Geoff Grammer can be reached at 986-3076 or
ggrammer@sfnewmexican.com.