ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Broken glass and tape was all that was left Tuesday morning after an attempted carjacking near Montgomery Park.  

A mother and her two adult children were in that car in the church parking lot across the street. 

“Apparently someone approached them and tried to carjack the car, one of the victims reported that the driver, who was her brother, was shot,” said Albuquerque Police Department’s Public Information Officer Gilbert Gallegos. 

The daughter is OK. Police say the suspect drove off with her brother dead in the car and mother injured with a gunshot wound, but he didn’t get very far before crashing the stolen vehicle.

“They came shortly this way, probably less than a mile onto Montgomery, right near Georgia Street. At that point the suspect was driving their car, he crashed out just a little further down here from me. Crashed into a black jeep. Both vehicles are on scene at that point,” said Gallegos. 

The driver of the black Jeep gets into it with the suspect.

“That individual noticed someone in the driver seat who was full of blood and the female as well,” Gallegos said. 

That’s when a security guard from the apartment across the street gets involved. Police say the guard and suspect end up at the apartment complex and shots are fired. The suspect died on the way to the hospital. The mother who was also shot is still alive and was taken to the hospital.

Police say this investigation is not over, and they are trying to figure out a motive.