APD releases details on SW Albuquerque shooting of domestic violence suspect
APD says video captured the moment Dwayne Wilson reached for a gun in his waistband before Officer Serena Garcia shot him in Southwest Albuquerque.
A domestic-violence 911 call in Southwest Albuquerque ended with Officer Serena Garcia shooting Dwayne Wilson once in the stomach after, APD says, he reached for a gun hidden in his waistband. The department has released photos and footage from the May 24 confrontation at 6208 Gonzales Rd. SW, where Wilson remains hospitalized and has required additional surgeries and physical therapy.
APD said Wilson’s then-girlfriend told dispatchers he had been drinking, beat her, refused to let her leave, threatened suicide and repeatedly displayed a firearm during the incident. She later escaped, drove to a store and waited there for police. The call came in at 4:38 p.m., and APD said officers spent time trying to get Wilson to surrender before he came out of the house around 7 p.m. not armed and asking to speak to the woman.
The decisive moment, according to the department, came when Wilson reached for the gun in his waistband. APD said body-worn camera and drone footage captured that movement, and the department released images showing the gun and the sequence it says led to the shooting. Those images are now central to the public record, but they also leave the same critical question that follows most police shootings in domestic calls: how officers read the final seconds, and what they believed they were seeing before Garcia fired.
The shooting has also landed in the middle of a broader surge in APD gunfire that has stirred protests and sharper questions from City Hall. City Councilor Nichole L. Rogers said APD officers deployed deadly force four times in two weeks and that the department had six officer-involved shootings year to date in 2026, compared with 15 in all of 2025. APD’s own statistics page lists the May 24 case as a non-fatal shooting at 6208 Gonzales Rd. SW and shows other 2026 incidents on Jan. 10, Feb. 3, May 26, May 29 and June 2.
Wilson was publicly identified on May 25, a day after the shooting. Earlier reporting said he faces charges including kidnapping, false imprisonment, aggravated battery against a household member, battery of a household member, threats or use of a phone to intimidate and aggravated assault. APD has also described him as having a long criminal history, including prior charges involving criminal sexual contact of a minor and criminal sexual penetration, along with probation and parole violations.
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