ALBUQUERQUE,NM (KKOB)– Albuquerque Police have arrested a 28-year old Albuquerque woman in connection with the shooting death of her father early Tuesday morning in Northwest Albuquerque.
Summer Coughran is charged with an open count of murder and is expected to be booked into the Metro Detention Center.
According to police, Summer Coughran, called 911 at 2:45 a.m. to report that she shot her father, Kirk Coughran, 65, at their home, in the 4700 block of Wildfire Rd., N.W., which is just north of Paradise Blvd. She told the 911 call-taker that her father assaulted her, and that he had been assaulting her all her life.
When officers arrived at the home, they found Kirk Coughran with gunshot wounds. He died at the scene.
Homicide detectives interviewed the daughter, who gave inconsistent statements that did not reflect the physical evidence found at the scene.
Police say, she also could not articulate any actions that were performed by her father that would place a reasonable person in fear for their life.
According to a press release, APD spokesperson Gilbert Gallegos said that while investigating the shooting, detectives located several police reports related to Summer Coughran. One previous report, stated she was diagnosed as having Schizophrenia. During that previous call to the home, the father told officers that she may have been off her medication, and he declined to press charges against her.
