On July 2, 2025, in a small apartment on the 1000 block of Madeira Drive SE in Albuquerque, 36-year-old Ann Marie Chaires, a female, answered a knock from three masked men. One of them, police say, had previously left a Harley-Davidson motorcycle at her place for safekeeping because it wasn't running. The men accused Ann Marie Chaires, 36, of selling the bike. She denied it and refused to retrieve it.
A single gunshot shattered the confrontation—witnesses told detectives that one of the men fired once, striking Ann Marie Chaires, 36, in the head. She died at the scene.
Homicide detectives traced the dispute back through witness statements and records, identifying two of the masked men as Nicholas Lucio, 43, of Albuquerque, and Matthew Mitchem, 49, of Los Lunas, who goes by “Bam Bam.” According to investigators, both were part of the confrontation inside the apartment tied to the stored motorcycle. The case file notes that arrest warrants for an open count of murder and conspiracy were issued on July 9; Mitchem was taken into custody on July 11, and Lucio was arrested later in the month. Both men were booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center and charged with open counts of murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
Police and subsequent reports describe the fatal encounter as a deadly culmination of a motorcycle dispute, with the single gunshot ending the life of Ann Marie Chaires, 36, in her Albuquerque home. Public records of gun-violence victims list her by name and confirm the date and place of death, while local coverage details the arrests of the two suspects connected to the confrontation. Authorities' accounts consistently center on the three masked men narrative; two—Lucio and Mitchem—now face murder and conspiracy charges as the case proceeds through the courts.
