Marcus Lujan, a 17-year-old White/Caucasian male, was killed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on the night of December 2, 1994. At approximately 9:30 p.m., Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office deputies were dispatched to a reported shooting in the 2400 block of Rio Bravo Boulevard SW. When deputies arrived, they found Marcus suffering from a fatal gunshot wound. The shooting became a homicide investigation that would remain unresolved for decades.
Investigators determined that more than one person was apparently involved. According to the publicly available cold-case account attributed to the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office, the suspects fled the area after Marcus was shot. Their getaway vehicle was described only as a small white vehicle. Publicly accessible accounts do not provide a more precise make, model, license plate number, or description of the occupants, leaving the fleeing vehicle as one of the few known details about those responsible.
The circumstances immediately preceding the gunfire have not been detailed in the available law-enforcement summary. There is no publicly documented explanation of why Marcus was targeted, whether he knew those who shot him, what interaction took place before the shooting, or how many people were inside the white vehicle. The available account refers to multiple suspects but does not publicly identify any of them by name.
Marcus’s killing has continued to appear in publicly available cold-case information associated with the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office. Despite the passage of more than three decades, the online records located for the case do not identify anyone as having been arrested or charged with his murder. No publicly documented prosecution, trial, guilty plea, or conviction connected to his death was located, and the suspects described as fleeing the scene remain unidentified in the available case information.
What remains publicly known is a brief but enduring account of a December night in Albuquerque: deputies responded to Rio Bravo Boulevard SW, Marcus was found fatally shot, and those believed responsible escaped in a small white vehicle. With no named suspect and no publicly reported arrest or court resolution, his killing remains recorded as an unsolved cold case under the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office.
