A New Mexico mother who initially let her 16-year-old son got to jail for a murder she committed is headed to prison after ...

Elizabeth Ortiz-Chavez now faces up to 18 years in prison for the 2022 murder she initially blamed on her son.

Elizabeth Ortiz-Chavez pleaded guilty to second degree murder with a firearm enhancement in front of Judge Lucy Solomon ...

Chavez, 49, has now pleaded guilty to second-degree murder following the fatal shooting of Josue Ruiz, 16, behind a diner in ...

got into an altercation with 16-year-old Josue Ruiz behind the Lindy’s Diner in downtown Albuquerque. Ruiz was shot and killed during the incident, but questions surfaced as to who actually pulled the ...

Elizabeth Ortiz-Chavez, 49, drove her son, Angelo Baldonado, to Albuquerque in March 2022 to fight her daughter's boyfriend, Josue Ruiz, for allegedly hitting her daughter while she was pregnant, ...

The Bernalillo County District Attorney’s Office said in a statement shared on social media Wednesday that Elizabeth Ortiz-Chavez “shot and killed Josue Ruiz outside a downtown restaurant ...