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UNM student charged in second killing

Suspect accused of stabbing homeless man outside a church off Central and I-25

Surveillance video shows a suspect fleeing the area after a homeless man was stabbed outside a church in March. Police said the suspect in the photos matches the description of Jaylen Hopewell, who was charged in the homicide on Thursday.
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A psychology major at the University of New Mexico already behind bars in connection with a fatal shooting was charged Friday in a second homicide 鈥 the stabbing death of a homeless man outside a church.

Jaylen Hopewell, 20, who has since been disenrolled from UNM, is charged with an open count of murder and tampering with evidence in the March 20 stabbing of 47-year-old Genovevo Rodriguez.

Attorney Eric Ramon, who is representing Hopewell in the previous homicide, said he would likely represent him in this case as well. Ramon declined to comment on the specifics of the case.

鈥淲e just look forward to the judicial system doing its due diligence with this case, same as his last case, and proceed forward and show the court what my defendant has to say about this case and his last case,鈥 Ramon said.

Detectives identified Hopewell as a suspect in the stabbing after he was charged along with four others in the May 13 homicide of Eden Rock outside the Frontier Restaurant, according to police. Police said the group ambushed Rock from behind a dumpster before he was shot by Tenard Weekly, also a UNM student who has since been disenrolled.

鈥淭he detective said he thought Hopewell resembled the suspect he saw in surveillance video related to the first murder at the church,鈥 Albuquerque police spokesperson Gilbert Gallegos said in a news release. 鈥淭he detective started asking Hopewell questions about that crime and noted that Hopewell became visibly nervous.鈥

Officers responded around 8 a.m. to the First Presbyterian Church, northwest of Central and Interstate 25, and found Rodriguez fatally stabbed on the porch of the building, according to a criminal complaint filed in Metropolitan Court. Police said Rodriguez appeared to be homeless, with several belongings around him and a blanket covering part of his body.

Police said an autopsy found Rodriguez had been stabbed multiple times, including in the neck, and had defensive wounds from trying to fight off his attacker. Surveillance video showed a man in the area who appeared to be Black with braided hair that fell to his shoulders.

An officer happened to pull someone over at that time and the dashcam video showed the same suspect walk toward the porch area where Rodriguez was later found, according to the complaint. Minutes later, a separate camera caught the same person running down a nearby alley away from the church.

On May 15, Hopewell was brought in for questioning about the homicide outside the Frontier and a detective noted he resembled the person seen in the video, the complaint states. Detectives showed him a photo of the person fleeing the church and he said, 鈥淚 don鈥檛 know. Is that me?鈥 while appearing nervous.

Police said Hopewell was a student at UNM and police searched his dorm and the surrounding area, finding his bag with a notebook inside that detailed the anatomy of the throat, how long it takes a person to bleed out and how much force it took to break various bones, along with descriptions of strangulation devices. 

When investigators searched Hopewell鈥檚 phone, they found it was pinging in the area where Rodriguez was killed, and in a jail call Weekly referenced that Hopewell was 鈥渙ut here killing homeless people,鈥 according to the complaint. A search of Hopewell鈥檚 electronic devices found, in the weeks leading up to Rodriguez鈥檚 death, internet searches for 鈥渨hat is Albuquerque鈥檚 solve rate?鈥, 鈥淧sychopath vs sociopath鈥 and serial killers.

Police said after Rodriguez was killed, Hopewell looked over several news articles about the homicide. In the hours after Rodriguez was killed and before his body was found, Hopewell had looked up websites that allow the public to listen in on Albuquerque police scanners.