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 of describing the exact circumstances—no location on the block level, no narrative of the final hours, and no official case narrative from investigators. What survives in the public record is the succinct acknowledgement that he was “lost to gun violence,” paired with community remembrances and a link back to the cemetery listing.
Open-source checks for investigative outcomes return no public indication of an arrest, charges, or even named suspects tied to Montoya’s killing. Advocacy and aggregation pages that compile unsolved or little-documented homicides include his entry but provide no investigative updates, reflecting how the case has remained absent from digitized police summaries and major press archives from that period. In short, there are no credible online reports of suspects or arrests connected to his death.
