Shania Spencer was found dead from a gunshot wound inside an apartment at 7900 Bell Ave. S.E. in Southeast Albuquerque on January 22, 2022. Investigators described the shooting as the violent end of an escalating dispute reported to involve Jose Satellite Sanchez and a stolen firearm.

Witnesses told police that Spencer had been attacked with an axe about a week before the shooting, and homicide detectives later gathered witness statements and cellphone records as part of a lengthy inquiry. A DNA warrant was executed while Sanchez was hospitalized; authorities say that DNA linked him to Spencer’s killing and to two other shootings.

In December 2023 Jose Sanchez, 28, was arrested and charged with an open count of murder and booked into the Metro Detention Center. Does anyone have information about Spencer’s life in that neighborhood or about the dispute that preceded her death?