Man charged in fatal shooting in Albuquerque foothills
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A man is accused of shooting a relative during a dispute last month at an apartment complex in Northeast Albuquerque.
Dorian McCuller, 42, is charged with an open count of murder and tampering with evidence in the June 20 killing of 44-year-old Richard Cabell.
Within days of Cabell鈥檚 death, McCuller showed up to a behavioral health hospital in Temple, Texas, saying he 鈥渕ay have hurt someone in Albuquerque,鈥� according to court records.
McCuller is currently behind bars in a Texas jail on a warrant for an unrelated rape case in North Carolina. He was charged in Cabell鈥檚 death on Monday.
Police responded around 4 p.m. to a shooting at the Copper Ridge Apartments, near Tramway and Copper NE, according to a criminal complaint filed in Metropolitan Court. Officers found Cabell shot to death in an entryway of the complex.
Police said witnesses told them another man shot Cabell twice before fleeing in a red sedan. A relative of Cabell told detectives he and McCuller were distant cousins and the men had been in a fight over a woman that day.
Officers learned McCuller was pulled over in the red sedan in May, according to court records.
On June 23 a nurse from a behavioral health hospital in Texas said McCuller was admitted and said he hurt someone in Albuquerque but 鈥渃ouldn鈥檛 remember any details.鈥�
Police said Texas authorities booked McCuller into jail on an extraditable warrant for the alleged rape of a minor in North Carolina. An Albuquerque police detective went to the jail to interview him.
McCuller told the detective he and Cabell fought over a woman at the apartment and Cabell punched him in the face, according to the complaint. McCuller said he got 鈥渆xtremely angry鈥� and 鈥渂lacked out.鈥�
Police said McCuller told them he thought Cabell had a gun and shot at him twice and took off from the complex. McCuller said he didn鈥檛 remember driving to Texas and probably threw the gun out the window 鈥渁nywhere on the road.鈥�
