LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - Prosecutors in Las Cruces say a judge has denied their request to hold a 19-year-old man suspected of brutally killing a man with a shovel on no bond.
They say Taylor James “TJ” Enriquez had his bond reduced to $100,000 and that a judge refused to increase it.
Enriquez faces charges of murder, false imprisonment and battery in connection to the late February death of 23-year-old Alberto Nunez-Lopez of Mesquite.
Police were dispatched to a home around 8 p.m. Sunday and found a man with multiple lacerations to his head and neck.
Police say it appears the two men got into a fight and Enriquez allegedly used a shovel to strike Nunez on the head and then a bottle to strike the victim’s neck.
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