APD releases details on officer-involved shooting, suspect critically injured
APD said a 37-year-old man was shot near Jefferson and Osuna and left in critical condition. The case comes amid fresh scrutiny after four police shootings in 10 days.
Albuquerque police said a 37-year-old man was shot near Jefferson and Osuna and remained in critical condition after an officer-involved shooting Tuesday night in northeast Albuquerque.
APD identified the man as Benjamin Siegling and said the shooting happened near a Circle K at Jefferson and Osuna, close to I-25. Police said Siegling had two active arrest warrants, fled from an officer, and was armed with a knife. APD said he refused to drop the knife and approached the officer before the officer fired. The department has not identified the officer involved in the shooting in the details it has released so far, and it has not laid out a public timetable for the body-camera video.
The shooting landed in the middle of a broader accountability problem for APD. The City of Albuquerque keeps annual officer-involved shooting statistics on its website, and APD said in June that it had sped up the process for reviewing shootings involving police after a record year. That change matters because the pace of internal review has become one of the main public tests of whether the department is responding quickly and transparently when officers use deadly force.
The scrutiny is not limited to one incident. KOB reported that APD officers were involved in four shootings in 10 days during a recent stretch, and Chief Cecily Barker said the community has reason to have concerns and questions. For Bernalillo County residents, the next public markers will be APD’s internal review steps, any body-camera release, and updates to the department’s shooting statistics, which are part of the city’s public record of use-of-force incidents.
APD’s handling of the case will now be measured against that record. If the department moves quickly, it can show whether the faster review process announced in June is being used in real time; if it does not, the shooting is likely to deepen the questions already hanging over the department’s recent use-of-force decisions.
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