(NM) APD arrests 19-year-old for shooting death of 13-year-old cousin
Police have arrested the 19-year-old accused of shooting and killing his 13-year-old cousin in northeast Albuquerque.
Police were called to the 300 block of Rhode Island Street NE, near Copper and Wyoming, Thursday afternoon. That's where they found the 13-year-old boy suffering from a gunshot wound. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
According to police, the boy was sitting on a couch when his cousin, Anthony Padilla, walked out of a bedroom with a shotgun he had just bought. Witnesses said Padilla was "joking around" when he pointed the gun at his cousin and pulled the trigger thinking it wasn't loaded and shot his cousin in the chest.
Padilla is facing murder charges.
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