On the evening of Friday, August 7, 2026, 30-year-old Corsinio Martinez Jr. was shot and killed in a road-rage incident on Unser Boulevard NW in Albuquerque. Martinez was driving a gray Hyundai Elantra northbound shortly after 7 p.m. when witnesses heard three gunshots from a black pickup. Martinez’s car then left the roadway and struck a light pole near Tierra Pintada Boulevard. He was found in the vehicle with gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators used automated license plate readers and surveillance to identify the pickup as a black GMC Sierra registered to 35-year-old Victor Rivera-Jimenez. Police located Rivera-Jimenez’s vehicle, obtained video placing him and two children plus a woman at a restaurant after the shooting, and say the woman and children had been in the truck at the time of the shooting. Rivera-Jimenez was arrested late Saturday, confessed to shooting Martinez, and was booked on an open count of murder, shooting at or from a motor vehicle, and two counts of abandonment or abuse of a child. A pre-trial detention hearing is expected.

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