Albuquerque police investigate homicide after welfare check in southeast city home

Albuquerque police are investigating a homicide at 1201 Madeira Dr. SE after officers were sent there on a welfare check and found an adult person dead inside a Southeast Albuquerque apartment.

The scene was tied to Somerset Park Apartments, near San Mateo Boulevard SE and Gibson Boulevard, in a densely populated part of the city that sits within the International District and South San Pedro area. By early June 3, police had released little beyond the fact that detectives were treating the death as a homicide, and no one was in custody.

The Albuquerque Police Department’s homicide dashboard listed the Madeira Drive death as a new 2026 homicide case and showed 21 homicide victims in the city as of June 3. The dashboard also showed 17 of the 21 cases were solved and four remained active. It marked 1201 Madeira Dr. SE as one of the active matters and said there had been one new homicide case in the previous seven days.

KOAT reported that no one was in custody, while KKOB reported that officers found the body of a man inside an apartment after the initial welfare-check call. APD had not publicly identified a suspect or said whether investigators believed the death was linked to any broader criminal activity. For nearby residents, the immediate question is whether the scene reflects an isolated killing or a continuing danger in the area, and police had not said there was any ongoing threat to the public.

The case added to a homicide total that has remained significant for Bernalillo County and Albuquerque despite a decline from prior years. APD’s 2025 annual crime statistics listed 98 non-negligent homicides in 2025, compared with 65 in 2024. The department has also said its crime-mapping data reflects calls for service, not every crime investigated or the final outcome of each case, a distinction that matters when early information is still developing.

APD Chief Cecily Barker leads the department as detectives continue to work the Madeira Drive death. The homicide investigation remains active, and the apartment complex that drew police attention on Wednesday morning sits in one of southeast Albuquerque’s most closely watched neighborhoods.