On July 28, 2021, 75-year-old Kenneth Alvin Graeb of Santa Fe, New Mexico, was shot and killed at his home on Haozous Road during a gathering with his wife, Sheryl Graeb, two neighbors and a 53-year-old woman. According to the woman who was shot, the group had consumed multiple bottles of wine that evening. She says Kenneth entered the guestroom while she was undressing, began to caress her and called for Sheryl when she asked what he was doing. The woman heard a single gunshot and found Kenneth slumped on top of her; she escaped through a bathroom window and deputies later observed a gunshot wound to her right shoulder.

Sheryl Graeb, 74, was arrested on July 29, 2021, and charged with the murder of her husband plus aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and negligent use of a deadly weapon for shooting the 53-year-old woman. She pleaded no contest to the charges and did not receive a prison sentence. Kenneth Alvin Graeb was a Jamaica, Queens native who lived abroad as a child, studied in Tokyo and Hawaii, served in the U.S. Army in Okinawa, earned a fine arts degree from the University of Arizona and worked for 30 years as a test flight cinematographer for McDonnell Douglas and Boeing.