Alyson Weston, a 24-year-old woman, Native American died on November 4, 2020, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Born Alyson Dee Weston, she grew up with deep family and cultural ties that are noted in her funeral home obituary, which also confirms her age and identity.
She was killed by gunfire on Albuquerque’s West Side. Contemporary reports placed police and medics at a northwest apartment complex that night for a double shooting; one victim died at the scene and another was initially
reported as not expected to survive. The case was subsequently described by local coverage as a West Side slaying believed to be a murder-suicide, a characterization consistent with the way her death is memorialized in public gun-violence records. City homicide logs for that date list two West Side incidents—at 10300 Golf Course Rd NW and 9600 Eagle Ranch NW—showing the concentration of police homicide responses in that area on November 4.
Authorities did not announce arrests connected to her killing. Reporting at the time indicated police believed one of the people involved was responsible for the shooting and then died, and no broader suspect search was described in public sources. There is no record in the city’s year-end homicide summary of an outstanding suspect tied to her case from that date, aligning with the murder-suicide description and the absence of later arrest announcements linked to her death.
