POLICE DON'T BELIEVE THE SHOOTING DEATH OF AN ALBUQUERQUE TEEN WAS RANDOM … BUT THEY ALSO DON'T KNOW IF THE VICTIM KNEW HIS KILLER. FIFTEEN YEAR OLD OWEN CHAVEZ … WHO THE ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL SAYS WAS TRYING TO LEAVE GANG LIFE AND GO BACK TO SCHOOL … WAS SHOT AS HE LEFT A HOME IN THE 200 BLOCK OF BETHEL SOUTHEAST ON TUESDAY NIGHT. HIS 18 YEAR OLD FRIEND WAS WAITING TO GIVE HIM A RIDE HOME WHEN THE SHOTS WERE FIRED.
APD'S TASIA MARTINEZ SAYS THE FRIEND TOLD OFFICERS THERE WAS A GREEN, TWO-TONED LEXUS IN THE AREA AND HE THINKS THAT'S WHERE THE SHOTS ORIGINATED. TWO PEOPLE WERE SEEN IN THE LEXUS: AN HISPANIC MALE AND A WOMAN.
CHAVEZ DIED AT A LOCAL HOSPITAL. THE ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL SAYS HE HAD JUST TAKEN THE OATH TO BECOME AN AMERICAN CITY ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO.
