Murder-Suicide Delay

Albuquerque (NM) police officials say they’ll revise their prioritization policy after several calls from neighbors failed to generate a police reponse to a domestic violence incident that ended with a murder suicide. Neighbors reported seeing a woman being dragged into her home by her husband, but their reports were “second hand,” and APD policy says only first-person reports should be given Priority 1 in CAD. In this case, two early calls were classified as Priority 2, and the third call about 90 minutes into the incident finally brought police. View a TV video report on the incident here.