Andres Griego-Alvarado

Andres Griego-Alvarado was an 18-year-old Hispanic man from Santa Fe, New Mexico, who had just graduated from Santa Fe High School. His mother, Lorise Griego, remembered him as someone who was always happy and wanted to make a positive impact, once telling her, "Mom, I want to make the world a better place." Friends and family gathered to mourn him at a vigil where they described him as one of a kind.

On Thursday, July 7, 2022, Andres was with his friend, 18-year-old Efren Sifuentes-Gallegos. The two had been inside a smoke shop on Airport Road, where surveillance video captured them "horse playing or joking around." Shortly after, while they were sitting together in a car parked outside the shop, Andres was fatally shot. Sifuentes-Gallegos drove Andres to an urgent care facility and helped a woman administer CPR. He later told police that he panicked, left the facility, and disposed of the gun in a field behind his home.

Santa Fe police responded quickly, seizing the firearm and the vehicle involved in the shooting. They arrested Efren Sifuentes-Gallegos on the same day. He was initially charged with first-degree murder, which was later reduced, along with tampering with evidence and unlawful carrying of a handgun by a person under 19. Sifuentes-Gallegos maintained that the shooting was accidental.

In March 2025, Sifuentes-Gallegos, then 20, accepted a plea agreement and pleaded no contest to a reduced charge of involuntary manslaughter. A judge sentenced him to six and a half years in prison but suspended most of the sentence in favor of probation. With credit for 984 days spent on electronic monitoring while awaiting trial, Sifuentes-Gallegos was released from the courtroom to begin serving just under four years of probation. Andres's mother expressed her disagreement with the plea deal.

Less than two months after his sentencing, Sifuentes-Gallegos was accused of violating his probation after he and another person, who had both been drinking, ran from a vehicle to evade a traffic stop. In November 2025, a judge found that he had violated the terms of his supervised release. Citing the violation, the judge revoked his probation and ordered him to serve the remainder of his sentence, amounting to more than three years in a state prison.