On Saturday, January 22, 2022, 25-year-old Allen Riley Sandoval of Albuquerque was shot and killed inside a residence on Sunset Gardens Road S.W. A 911 call that morning reported a male had entered the home and shot another male; officers found Sandoval deceased at the scene. Friends and family remember him as kind-hearted, hilarious, and humble.

Witnesses at the residence identified 21-year-old Fransisco Espinoza Almeida Jr. as the person who arrived banging on the front door, forced his way inside, walked down a hallway to a back bedroom where Sandoval was located, and shot him multiple times before fleeing in a vehicle witnesses recognized. Almeida was apprehended by New Mexico State Police on January 24, 2022, in the northern part of the state and was taken back to Albuquerque, charged with an open count of murder and booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center.

If anyone knew Allen or has information about what happened that morning, please share what you know with investigators.