APD: 14-year-old arrested in pedestrian’s murder; death of different teen led police to suspect

Albuquerque police arrested a 14-year-old boy Wednesday who is accused of running a man over several times in northeast Albuquerque last Friday afternoon.

14-year-old Matthew Jaramillo faces murder, stolen vehicle and tampering with evidence charges in the death of 46-year-old Richard Sisneros, who died at UNMH after he was run over.

APD spokesman Tanner Tixier said officers learned of Jaramillo’s involvement while investigating a suspicious death, when a 15-year-old male arrived at Kaseman Hospital with a gunshot wound Wednesday. He later died at the hospital. Tixier says police are treating his death as suspicious at this point, but have not ruled out homicide.

A criminal complaint for Jaramillo’s arrest says Jaramillo was driving a stolen SUV that day, picked up a prostitute off Central and drove to a parking lot in the 200 block of Virginia SE to ditch the vehicle.

A man, identified by neighbors at Sisneros, started yelling at Jaramillo to leave the parking lot and stood in front of the stolen vehicle. The complaint states Jaramillo told police he tried to get Sisneros to move, but he wouldn’t, so Jaramillo ran him over.

He also admitted to police, according to the criminal complaint, that he dragged Sisneros down the road in an attempt to “detach” him from the vehicle near the intersection of Virginia and Chico NE. Witnesses said Jaramillo drove back over him up to three times.

Jaramillo then allegedly then ditched the vehicle behind a four-plex near General Arnold and Central SE. But when he went back to get the vehicle, it was gone, according to the criminal complaint.

Sisneros died early the next morning.

Police were able to identify Jaramillo as the suspect in Sisneros’ death when on Wednesday, they responded to a home in the 12000 block of Central SE, where they found the vehicle in which the 15-year-old boy was transported to Kaseman Hospital.

When officers interviewed the people at that home, they said Jaramillo had stayed there on the night he allegedly ran Sisneros over and that he admitted to killing the man.

It was after that police were able to pick up Jaramillo, interview him and arrest him.

APD spokesman Tanner Tixier said the cases are not connected save the people involved.