Orlando Levi Atencio Sr, 42, was shot and killed in Albuquerque on June 22, 2025. Family and friends remembered him as a husband, father and grandfather whose death deeply affected the community.

Within days investigators identified a suspect and described a sequence of violent events that ended at Atencio’s home. Authorities alleged 38-year-old Jonathan Torres of Fruitland forced his girlfriend to drive to a friend’s residence in Southeast Albuquerque, then fatally shot that friend in what was described as a jealous rage. Torres was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service near Coal Avenue SE and University Boulevard SE in Albuquerque on June 26, 2025, and was booked into the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center on a state murder warrant and related charges, plus a federal probation-violation warrant.

City homicide tallies continued to track the case as it proceeded through the courts. Does anyone in Southeast Albuquerque have information about the events of June 22 or knew Orlando Levi Atencio Sr?