On the afternoon of December 18, 2024, deputies responded to a call from 61-year-old John Miramontes in Los Lunas, New Mexico. Miramontes told dispatch he had been shot at a home on El Cerro Loop and, after deputies arrived, was found with multiple gunshot wounds. He identified his attacker as a woman named Amy and warned of a second victim inside the residence before being transported to the University of New Mexico Hospital, where he later died.

Officers searched the home on El Cerro Loop and discovered the body of 64-year-old George Yzquierdo with a fatal gunshot wound to the head. A 41-year-old woman, Amy Pendleton, was found hiding in the bathroom and taken into custody without a struggle. Pendleton was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and was booked into the Valencia County Detention Center; she was on probation at the time of the incident. The motive has not been released.

If anyone knew John Miramontes or George Yzquierdo, or has information about the events at the El Cerro Loop residence, please come forward with what you know.