2nd suspect arrested in NYE beer pong murder

Albuquerque police on Friday arrested a second suspect in the New Year’s Eve murder of a man over a beer pong game.

Police arrested Luis Delgado, 23, Friday. He has been charged with aggravated battery with great bodily harm, an open charge of murder, conspiracy, tampering with evidence and aggravated burglary in the shooting death of Joray Chavez.

Police say Delgado’s accomplice, Nathan Ware, was at a party at an apartment on Estancia near Central and got into a fight with Chavez during a game of beer pong.

Police arrested Ware in early January.

After the fight, Ware left and came back with two friends, one of whom was allegedly Delgado. Police said Ware told his friends to shoot Chavez, who later died at the hospital.

A second person was shot during the fight.

Ware’s phone records indicated he had spoken or text messaged with Delgado four times around the time of the shooting. Though Delgado denied it, his phone records showed the same, according to a criminal complaint for his arrest.

He was arrested and is being held without bond at MDC on the charges and a probation violation.