James Rhodes, 44, a Black male, was killed on January 14, 2014, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His name appears in memorialized rolls of homicide victims from that period, a stark entry without publicly available narrative details about where or how he was attacked. The record places him only in that winter week, in a city struggling with persistent violence and a growing number of unresolved cases.
Public reporting indicates the case remains unsolved.
No arrests have been announced, and authorities have not publicly named a suspect or suspects tied to Rhodes's death. As with many Albuquerque cold cases of that era, the absence of eyewitness accounts and released investigative specifics leaves only the date, the name, and the enduring question of who was responsible.
