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    ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (KOAT) — A woman has been charged with murder, after her 10-year-old son was accused of killing a 16-year-old girl during a fight outside an Albuquerque apartment complex on Saturday.

Albuquerque Police said officers responded to reports of a fight and shooting in the 200 block of Tennessee Street Northeast on Saturday around 4 p.m.

“What we know at this time is that there was a neighbor dispute over loud music. At one point in time, neighbors went next door to advise their neighbor to turn down the music,” APD Chief of Police Cecily Barker said.

According to a criminal complaint, Susana and Keinerlein Rangel were listening to music while unpacking things inside their apartment. A woman, later identified as 40-year-old Elaina Gomez-Villeda, came to the front door and asked them to turn the music down. Susana Rangel refused, and Gomez-Villeda went back to her apartment.

Court records say Gomez-Villeda confronted Susana and Keinerlein Rangel for a second time outside the apartment. A fist fight then occurred and Gomez-Villeda allegedly struck Susana and Keinerlein Rangel.

“At some point in time, a 10-year-old came outside and tried to get his mother out of that physical dispute. He went back inside and he exited the apartment with a firearm. We know that he fired one round, which struck a 16-year-old who was deceased on scene,” Barker said.

Police said Gomez-Villeda then took the boy inside their apartment and called 911.

As officers arrived, they heard a gunshot inside the apartment. Police said Gomez-Villeda came out of the apartment with a gun, and an officer fired but did not hit anyone.

“A female can be seen coming to the door with a firearm, and at least one officer discharged his firearm,” said Barker.

Gomez-Villeda dropped the gun and surrendered, police said.

Albuquerque police are investigating the girl’s death, while the multi-agency task force is investigating the officer’s gunfire.

Barker said the boy’s age presents unique challenges.

“We have only seen this in other circumstances with a juvenile who was involved with robberies. The detention center does not take 10-year-olds, so we will update you as far as what is going to happen with his status as this investigation goes on,” Barker said.

Gomez-Villeda has been charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder, child abuse, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, negligently making a firearm accessible to a minor, battery and receiving stolen property. She is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center.

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By Aubry Killion & Alyssa Gomez

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    ST. CHARLES PARISH, Louisiana (WDSU) — An 84-year-old St. Charles Parish man was arrested on Halloween night after allegedly pointing a shotgun at deputies in the Charlestowne subdivision.

According to the St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office, neighbors called authorities with concerns about a person walking around with a gun. Deputies arrived and found Herman Alexander holding a shotgun.

Deputies repeatedly asked Alexander to drop the weapon, but he allegedly pointed the shotgun at them. In response, deputies fired at Alexander, who dropped to the ground but was not hit.

Alexander faces multiple charges, including aggravated assault on a police officer, aggravated assault with a firearm, and resisting an officer.

Neighbors expressed empathy for Alexander after learning about his history of mental health struggles.

“I just felt sorry for the man, and then when I found out who he was, I kinda felt bad for him even more, but I couldn’t go out there myself, someone with a shotgun. But, you know, he was a nice man,” said neighbor Thomas Tumblin.

“We knew the man; he’d been in the neighborhood too about 40 years, so he’s a good person,” said Lynette Lane, another neighbor.

The sheriff’s office added that Alexander was taken to the hospital in May 2026 after what they believed was a mental health episode.

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    LOS ANGELES, California (KCAL, KCBS) — An officer with the Los Angeles Police Department hit and killed a woman while responding to a call at a Halloween party in the San Fernando Valley on Saturday night, authorities confirmed.

According to the LAPD, the incident was reported in the area of Woodman Avenue and Bessemer Street in Sherman Oaks at about 10:30 p.m. Officers were responding to reports of a fight among a large group of people when an officer collided with a pedestrian near the party, which police said had nearly 300 people.

The pedestrian, identified only as a 32-year-old woman, was pronounced dead at the scene. Her name is yet to be released, but family members tell CBS LA that she leaves behind two young daughters.

The crash happened about a mile from the party, on Woodman Avenue between Bessemer Street and Erwin Street. It’s unclear if she was in the street or a crosswalk.

A witness described the crash to CBS LA.

“What I heard was a loud thud; it caught my attention because it wasn’t loud enough to be a gunshot, but it didn’t sound like a car accident,” the witness said. “I see one cop car in the middle of the street, sideways, and then I see a cop a couple feet from the curb, looking into the street. … You could see the body in the middle of the street on the floor.”

Video from the scene shows wet road conditions due to the rainstorm that moved through Southern California on Halloween.

No additional details were immediately made available.

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By Beth Carlson

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    OTTAWA, Kansas (KMBC) — A family in Ottawa, Kansas, is closing the doors on their free haunted house tradition after more than 25 years, with one final night of Halloween frights.

“It’s a huge blessing to just to be able to give back to the community and have fun with it,” Sherri Burton said.

Burton and her family have spent decades building their haunted house from the ground up each year in their yard, complete with over one dozen rooms and several hallways that guests must get through.

“Then we’re building for two months, and then takedowns usually a month after that. So, it’s a long process,” Burton said.

The haunted house, which has more square footage than their actual home, started small but grew into a major community event. They now are open for Friday and Saturday of Halloween weekend, to offset the crowds.

“We started with just a few trick-or-treaters off the front porch, to where we’ve had 1,200 to 1,500 people,” Burton said.

Burton explained that this year will be the last for the haunted house, as her family said their priorities have changed as their family has grown.

“We just don’t have the time and effort to put into it. And we don’t want to disappoint the community. So, we would rather just be done and hopefully let somebody else pick up and take off where we left off,” she said.

As the family prepares for one final night of scares, Burton expects a large turnout.

“They want to come and just be here one last time. So, I expect a big crowd tonight,” she said.

The haunted house has always been free to attend, but donations collected over the years have supported local charities in Ottawa.

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    WAUKEE, Iowa (KCCI) — Character is what you do when no one is watching and, on Beggars’ Night 2023, two central Iowa boys proved they each have a heart of gold.

It was a typical night of trick-or-treating for a group of sixth-graders in Waukee when two of the boys, Avi Curtis and Liam Ireland, noticed someone had taken all of the candy from one house’s bowl and ran.

They refilled the bowl with their own candy and even stuck around to give some out to costumed kids who stopped by.

The boys didn’t know it, but the home’s video doorbell captured everything on video.

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By Breana Ross

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    BALTIMORE (WBAL) — A renowned Baltimore photographer’s impact inspired a generous gift from thousands of miles away.

Devin Allen captures life through the lens of his camera.

“That’s an image I captured of my mom singing in the living room. That’s actually in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian,” said Allen, pointing out photos he hung in his studio in his grandmother’s home. “This image was in the show for the 10-year anniversary of Freddie Gray.”

Allen gained recognition for his work following the deaths of Freddie Gray and George Floyd, with his photos from the aftermath of both featured on the cover of Time magazine.

“I love for my work to start conversations, those tough conversations that we sometimes don’t like to have,” Allen told WBAL-TV 11 News. “The work is to inspire the next generation. Coming from West Baltimore, it can be tough, but I was one of the ones using my art form and found my path, so you know the work is really to inspire the next generation to chase their dreams too. The work is to reveal and shed light on places normally some people wouldn’t go and uplift my community while doing that.”

Allen knows his work has impact. But he didn’t know how much impact until he received an email about a woman named Tamara Baran, who lived more than 1,000 miles away.

She included Allen in her will.

“We have never met,” Allen told WBAL-TV 11 News. “I didn’t know her, but you know, her partner and the family and the lawyer said that she had left some money for me in her will … I thought it was fake, but it wasn’t fake.”

Her longtime partner said Baran grew up in Detroit in the 1970s and 1980s before moving to Charleston and then Utah. She saw how people were treated unjustly because of their skin color, including by law enforcement, and was angry about the deaths of Michael Brown, Gray and Floyd.

Seeing Allen’s photos on Instagram in 2015 moved her in a special way.

Baran’s partner wrote: “Tamara always went out of her way to care for the bullied or the oppressed and help them find a voice. I’d like to think this contribution is Tamara’s way of showing kindness and hope in a cruel world, even after she has left it.”

Allen told WBAL-TV 11 News that he’s blown away by the gesture.

“To have someone that I’ve never met love the work and then have the work affect them in that way, it was really inspiring to me,” Allen told WBAL-TV 11 News. “This year has been really tough for me, losing my mom and dealing with a grandmother who has dementia. That just kind of lit a fire behind me to continue to do the work that I do even despite being in these dark times.”

Allen received a check for around $3,000 and signed the estate paperwork this week.

“To know that the work has touched someone to basically invest in me into being an artist — it takes a community, and sometimes, you don’t even really know where that community is at,” Allen told WBAL-TV 11 News.

Allen told WBAL-TV 11 News that he plans to use the money to continue fixing up his grandmother’s home, which is also his childhood home. He is developing the space into a studio, an art gallery, and eventually, a place where other young artists can grow.

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    DENVER, Colorado (KCNC) — Two men, both 19-year-old University of Colorado students, were shot late Saturday night after police shut down a Halloween house party on The Hill area of Boulder adjacent to the campus.

One of those students died after being taken by ambulance to Boulder Community Hospital, Boulder Police Department Chief Stephen Redfearn stated at 9 a.m. press conference Sunday.

Redfearn called the incident a “heinous crime” as he explained details leading up to it. The party, he said, was registered in advance by its organizers with the university. It featured a live band and “hundreds” of people in attendance, per Redfearn.

Just before 10 p.m., a noise complaint was called in to Boulder dispatchers. BPD officers responded to the party near the intersection of 7th Street and Marine Street, about six blocks west of the CU Boulder campus. They judged the party to reach the level of a nuisance to the neighborhood. One highly intoxicated person was taken into custody and the party’s organizers were issued a ticket, Redfearn explained.

That began the process of the party shutting down. Most of the crowd left.

“A core group of people, including the renters, remained at the house,” Redfearn said.

Around 11:30 p.m., after officers had departed, reports were phoned in to 9-1-1 that a shooting had occurred at the same location.

Redfearn said the shooting happened as “a group tried to force its way into the home to join the party.”

CU students received an alert about the shooting.

“Super scary,” said CU student Namitha. “Obviously, for something like that to happen just feels so unreal.”

Sunday morning, investigators identified two persons of interest whose images were caught on videotape. Their images were recorded immediately prior to the shooting, a BPD spokesperson confirmed.

“It is imperative that we speak with them,” Redfearn said.

The two men were described as:

-Person 1: A man with short, dark hair and facial hair, wearing a red hooded sweatshirt underneath a black jacket. -Person 2: A man with short, dark hair, wearing a black shirt with Art the Clown on it and a silver-colored chain necklace.

Speakers at the press conference declined to refer to those two men as suspects.

Hours later, BPD released more images of other young people whom investigators are trying to identify and contact.

Redfearn said investigators were interviewing 20 witnesses to the shooting.

Boulder PD closed the area around the home during its investigation. CUPD also secured a perimeter around the west side of campus.

Residents and homeowners were allowed to return to their homes at 2 a.m. It was believed the suspects in the shooting had left the city by that time, BPD stated on social media.

Namitha said she wasn’t sure if it was safe to go back to her neighborhood with the suspects still out there.

“It’s like it’s Halloween night. Of course, there’s like tons of students going around, like not sober. And for the police to have such minimal communication with students,” said Namitha. “That there’s a shooting and nothing else till the next morning. I think it’s just ridiculous.”

Redfearn and University of Colorado Boulder Police Chief Ashley Griffin said both departments would increase patrols in The Hill on Sunday. This incident is the first homicide in Boulder this year, Redfearn added.

“This is an incredibly tragic event,” 20th Judicial District Attorney Michael Dougherty said at the press conference. “The response has been a massive coordinated effort. Progress has already been made. We are very likely going to solve this crime, and I promise we will hold the shooter or shooters fully accountable for the devastation and trauma they’ve caused.”

CU Boulder shared this statement, which read, in part, “This is an incredibly traumatic event for our campus community. Our thoughts and sympathies are with all those impacted by this tragedy…”

Investigators are asking for photos and videos from people who attended the party or witnessed the shooting. Those images can be submitted online at bouldercopd.evidence.com/axon/community-request/public/2610148

If anyone recognizes the persons of interest, they are asked to contact investigators directly through Boulder PD dispatch at 303 411-333 in reference to case 26-10148.

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