Man arraigned in teenager’s drive-by shooting death

Seventeen-year-old Jaydon Chavez-Silver died in the June shooting in Albuquerque and the 911 dispatcher, Matthew Sanchez, resigned late last month.

Albuquerque police say they’ve made an arrest in the killing of man found dead in an apartment on the city’s southeast side over the weekend. They also say he and at least one other person returned to that residence the night of Chavez-Silver’s death in retaliation and over an unpaid drug debt owed by one of the home’s residents.

He’s the son of Democratic Rep. Stephanie Maez of Albuquerque.

Just hours after his arrest, Maez released a statement about how much she loves her son. “My heart is aching today and I am waiting to see how this hard situation develops”.

He was charged with an open count of murder, child abuse resulting in great bodily harm or death, three counts of child abuse, assault with intent to commit a violent felony, 10 counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, shooting at or from a motor vehicle and conspiracy to commit a first- or second-degree felony. “As we go forward, the love of my family and my faith in God will see us through”.

The caller had told Sanchez she was doing cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the male.

“You know, I’m going to call this guy a savage, because he called himself a savage in his social media statuses and his tweets”, Drobik said. “I’m not gonna deal with this, OK?”, he said, before hanging up on her.

Donovan Maez told police that he was at a different party the night Chavez-Silver was shot.