Joseph Banuelos was arrested at the Metropolitan Detention Center Sunday morning on an open count of murder concerning his father’s death.
A suspect has been arrested after police discovered a corpse in northwest Albuquerque on Saturday.
According to an APD representative, the incident occurred at 4321 Grande Dr. NW. When police arrived, they discovered that a person, identified as Joseph Banuelos, Sr., had died due to his injuries.
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Albuquerque Joseph Banuelos: Son Arrested For Stabbing Father Joseph Banuelos Sr To Death
Joseph Cruz Banuelos, Jr., 27, was booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center on an open count of murder in the death of his father, Joseph Banuelos, Sr., 55, on Sunday morning.
Officers were called to a property on the 4300 block of Grande NW at 6:50 am. Saturday after neighbors reported seeing a guy with blood on him and bloody tracks by the home’s front door.
According to the complaint, blood was found throughout the house, and the older Banuelos was inside with many stab wounds and a significant laceration to his neck. He was declared dead at the site.
According to the complaint, a neighbor noticed Banuelos Jr. outside ranting in the street at 2 am, which the neighbor described as normal behavior for the guy, who lived with his father at the residence in northwest Albuquerque.
According to the complaint, authorities retrieved surveillance camera footage of the home’s outside.
The video showed a guy, who looked to be Banuelos Jr., leaving the house at 2:20 am with blood on his clothes.
According to the lawsuit, the younger Banuelos was spotted smoking marijuana in a white pickup before driving away.
Laguna Pueblo police arrested the suspect, Joseph Banuelos Jr., on Saturday. He confessed to murdering his father.
Banuelos, Jr. has been charged with first-degree murder. He is now being imprisoned at the Metro Detention Center.
Joseph Banuelos Jr: Sequence Of Events Explored
According to authorities, Banuelos Jr. drove to the Route 66 Travel Center on West Central at 1:30 pm on Saturday.
According to the complaint, Banuelos Jr. confessed to a security officer that he murdered his father and begged the guard to notify the police.
Banuelos told an Albuquerque police investigator later Saturday afternoon that he was in the garage smoking marijuana as his father slept and had “intrusive thoughts.”
The investigator noted in the complaint, “Joseph felt the SWAT team was outside his apartment and that others were observing him.”
Banuelos Jr. informed the investigator that he stabbed his father with a fillet knife while his father was sleeping and that the weapon broke during the fight between the two men.
Banuelos Jr. claimed he tried to suffocate his father with a wire before grabbing another knife and severing his father’s throat. According to the complaint, he informed the investigator that he attempted to remove his father’s tongue.
During his interview with detectives, Banuelos Jr. sketched schematics of the crime scene, according to police.
“Joseph at times appeared to be overwhelmed with emotion and told me that killing someone is a cardinal sin and there is no excuse for what he did,” the detective wrote in the complaint.
“Joseph blamed his father for not being there for him throughout his childhood.”