Samuel Montoya

Death by Force

Samuel Montoya, 41, a Hispanic/Latino man, died on August 11, 1997, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Public memorial records list his birth as November 15, 1955, and note that he was laid to rest at San Jose Cemetery in Albuquerque, details that fix the time and place of his death in the late summer of 1997 and connect him to a known burial site in the South Valley.

Available gun-violence records identify Montoya as a victim of a fatal shooting on that date in Albuquerque, but they stop short ...Read More