ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (TCD) — Police arrested a 20-year-old man this week more than a month after he allegedly fatally shot his 23-year-old ex-girlfriend in her apartment.
On the evening of Jan. 11, the Albuquerque Police Department responded to an apartment on Montgomery Boulevard Northeast, where they found Alianna Farfan shot dead in her bedroom. Officers learned a man, later identified as the victim’s ex-boyfriend, Alexander Ortiz, allegedly fled through the apartment window wearing a ski mask and a black hoodie.
On Feb. 21, police detectives found Ortiz, and following a brief standoff, SWAT officers with the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office took him into custody.
Farfan and Ortiz had allegedly been in an abusive relationship. Police believe on the day of the shooting, Ortiz was angry with his ex.
A relative told officers several friends stayed with Farfan at her apartment because she “feared being alone.”
According to police, friends told detectives that on the night of the shooting, Ortiz was in Farfan’s bedroom, and the door was closed. The victim’s friends allegedly heard a single gunshot and “kicked open” the door to see Farfan had suffered a gunshot wound to her face.
By the time Farfan’s friends entered the room, Ortiz had already fled the scene.
Farfan’s friends said Ortiz “always wore a black ski mask, and that was a ‘big thing’ for him,” according to officers.
Police detectives booked Ortiz into the Metropolitan Detention Center on an open count of first-degree murder. He remains held without bail.
According to Farfan’s obituary, she leaves behind two young sons.
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