Police: Video shows triple homicide victims being shot (New Mexico)

The Albuquerque Journal ^ | June 4, 2018 | Megan Bennett and Mark Oswald

[CedarDave]

SANTA FE – The New Mexico State Police say they have a major piece of evidence in last week’s triple homicide – a video of the killings as they took place.

After the bodies of Abraham Martinez, 36, April Browne, 42, and Kierin Guillemin, 27, were discovered Wednesday night in a house near the village of Dixon, officers also found a digital video recording system that had been set up with security cameras surrounding and inside the house.

One piece of video, according to a State Police search warrant affidavit, shows that at about 12:30 a.m. last Tuesday, May 29, two armed men entered a bedroom while Guillemin was sitting in a chair, Martinez was asleep underneath covers on the bed and Browne was sitting on the bed.

One of the men, wearing a hat and loose jacket, had a semiautomatic handgun and the other man, in a sweatshirt and with glasses on his head, was armed with a revolver, says the affidavit by Agent Joey Gallegos Sr.

The video shows that Guillemin is shot “immediately” as the men come into the room and the two gunmen “next walk up and shoot April Browne and Abraham Martinez in the head,” Gallegos’ statement says.

The gunmen ransacked drawers “stealing items and suspected drugs,” before shooting each of the three victims once more in the head.

The two men “ransack some more and then leave the room with several items in hand and their handguns,” says Gallegos’ affidavit.

Gallegos wrote that he later determined that the gunmen in the video were John Powell, 34, of Ranchos de Taos, and his brother, Roger Gage, 33, of Arroyo Hondo. Powell and Gage were arrested Friday night in El Prado north of Taos.

[CedarDave]

Neighbor's had long suspected that drug activity was occurring at the house and even painted "drug house" on the street with an arrow pointing to the house. Officers searching after the deaths found multiple cellular telephones in the residence as well as drug paraphernalia which had what appeared to be heroin residue on them. Two of the three killed had a drug habit.

[CedarDave]

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[DoughtyOne]

Well at least they no longer have a drug habit.

[BBell]

“She was feisty, very smart, and had a good sense of humor,” Duckworth said. “And she was a free spirit. She did it her way.”

That statement is questionable. She's a freed spirit now

[House Atreides]

Drug addiction or not, these cold-blooded murderers should receive a swift death penalty.

[CedarDave]

Not in New Mexico - the Democrats prohibited it about a dozen years ago. Governor Martinez wanted to reinstate it but the Dem controlled legislature has always voted it down. Maybe a video of an actual horrific robbery/execution might change a few minds.

[Nifster]

A true shooting gallery

[umgud]

Damned opioids kill again.

[Gen.Blather]

Uhm...video camera facing the bed...Humm.

Also, why would somebody conducting illegal activities in the house have a video system inside the house? What was the purpose, so they could go rob somebody who robbed them?

[CedarDave]

Also, why would somebody conducting illegal activities in the house have a video system inside the house? What was the purpose, so they could go rob somebody who robbed them?

Sounds reasonable - if someone burglarized their home while they were out, they could identify them and enact revenge themselves - no need to involve police, especially if it might bring suspicion on themselves for drug trafficking.

[fishtank]

THis putz was MUCH to blame for no death penalty in NM....

[fishtank]

Also:

http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/police-dixon-killings-caught-on-home-video/article_8f2fecf5-a64f-5aa7-9ba9-22f18040b304.html

[fishtank]

John Powell - the murderer who's crying because he's scared of prison

[Verginius Rufus]

John Powell and his brother Roger Gage? Different surnames. Same mother but different fathers?

[csvset]

A year difference in age too. Mom was busy that year !

[Tammy8]

If the horrific death of the Martens girl was not enough, I can’t imagine this would be.

[terycarl]

I’ve been a corrections officer for years and this guy will be VERY popular in the slammer.....

[CopperTop]

Trey Gowdy? d;^)

[kaehurowing]

Drug dealers need to be publicly executed.

[TightyRighty]

Dude looks like he has a touch of the Deliverance in him.