Juvenile charged with attempted murder in Old Town garage shooting
A 17-year-old is facing attempted-murder charges after a March shooting in an Old Town-area parking garage left a 15-year-old girl critically injured.
A 17-year-old is facing attempted-murder charges after a March shooting in an Old Town-area parking garage left a 15-year-old girl critically injured and sent gunfire into one of Albuquerque’s most visible visitor corridors. The arrest of Issac Herrera came months after the shooting, underscoring that investigators spent weeks piecing together a case in a place where residents, shoppers and tourists expect to park and walk with some sense of safety.
Police said the shooting happened shortly after 3 a.m. on March 29 near Mountain Road Northwest and 20th Street Northwest, in a parking garage at a business complex north of Old Town. Investigators said several shots were fired in the air, and one round struck the 15-year-old girl as she ran away. She was taken to a hospital with critical injuries. APD’s ShotSpotter system detected gunfire in the area, helping confirm the location of the shooting.
One report says the confrontation began after a house party moved from Rio Rancho to the garage, a detail that makes the case more than a random burst of violence in a parking structure. It places a teenage victim, an early-morning gathering and a crowded entertainment district in the same chain of events, raising fresh questions about how a dispute escalated into gunfire so close to Old Town’s core.
The charge against Herrera now pushes the case into the county’s juvenile-justice system at a time when city leaders and police continue to frame public safety as central to the health of the Old Town area. Albuquerque’s crime-mapping pages say the city’s data come from daily calls for service and monthly snapshots, tools that can help compare this shooting with wider violent-crime patterns, even if they do not show the final outcome of any single case. For a district built around foot traffic, events and evening business, the arrest is a reminder that a shooting in a parking garage can ripple far beyond one block and leave lasting questions about how secure the area really is after dark.
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