Police: Suspect in fatal shooting remains at large
Police believe Santa Fe man with criminal past killed teen, injured woman at property he owns

Geoff Grammer and Nico Roesler | The New Mexican
Posted: Monday, January 23, 2012
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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.





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