On August 31, 2023, a pre-dawn burst of gunfire in an Albuquerque apartment complex parking lot on Rhode Island Street SE left three people dead, including 35-year-old Genea Oliver, a Black female. Officers responding to a nearby crash around 4:30 a.m. heard the shots via the city’s ShotSpotter system and found Oliver and her brother, 31-year-old Jonathan McGaughy, dead beside a silver vehicle; a third victim, 40-year-old Randy Lovett, was critically wounded and later died at a hospital.

Police located 32-year-old Thomas Clark Jr. hiding on a nearby roof and detained him on an outstanding felony warrant. Clark later told homicide detectives he had been in a car with McGaughy and two others, that he believed they were armed and intended to kill him, and that he armed himself; he said his gun discharged inside the car, striking McGaughy, and that he then fired through the back passenger window, hitting Oliver, then shot McGaughy again after exiting the vehicle.

Clark was arrested and charged with three counts of murder, shooting at or from a motor vehicle, and tampering with evidence. The case went to trial and a jury returned guilty verdicts for three counts of second-degree murder after less than an hour of deliberation. Does anyone have firsthand information about the location or the people involved that could shed more light on what happened that morning?