Sep. 5—More than three months after a teen from Lindrith was shot and killed near the Northern New Mexico village, the Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s Office has charged a man with murder in the slaying.
Derik Madrid of Cuba, N.M., is suspected in the death of 18-year-old Trent Greene, a recent graduate of Cuba High School whose body was found off the side of a highway near his hometown in early June.
Madrid, 21, faces a count of first-degree murder and a slew of other felonies: aggravated battery, shooting at or from a motor vehicle, six counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and two counts of child abuse, according to charges filed Wednesday in Rio Arriba County Magistrate Court.
Madrid was named in a search warrant affidavit the sheriff’s office filed in court in the days after Greene was killed. Investigators from the agency had obtained a warrant to search his parents’ pickup truck and home.
Deputies focused their investigation on a fight that broke out among several people after a rodeo in Lindrith the night of June 2, the affidavit indicates. Investigators wrote a witness told deputies he had seen Madrid pull out a gun and begin firing into the air before a shootout erupted nearby between the occupants of two pickup trucks.
The charges against Madrid appear to be the only charges filed in the incident so far.
This is a developing story, and more details will be added as soon as they become available.
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