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A New Mexico woman pleaded guilty to second-degree murder this week after murder her daughter’s teenage boyfriend person in charge then trying to pin honourableness crime on her own boy, according to authorities.

Honourableness Bernalillo County District Attorney’s Labour said in a statement common on social media Wednesday ensure Elizabeth Ortiz-Chavez “shot and handle Josue Ruiz outside a downtown restaurant” on March 4, 2022.

“Ortiz-Chavez tried to find fault with her son for the butchery because he's a juvenile trip she believed he would demonstration a lesser sentence,” Bernalillo Colony District Attorney Sam Bregman articulated.

The 49-year-old mother pan up to 18 years cultivate prison after pleading guilty that week, the district attorney’s prayer says, though a sentencing glut has not yet been invariable.

Bernalillo County inmate registry reviewed by PEOPLE show Ortiz-Chavez is in custody at goodness Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Albuquerque, where she’s been engaged without bond since May 2023.

Ruiz’s 2022 murder took place in an alley recklessness a diner, according to KRQE and local KOB4. The avenue reported that Ortiz-Chavez’s son Angelo Baldonado, who was 16 dislike the time of the perspicacious, had confronted Ruiz, who was dating Baldonado’s sister, at loftiness diner. The two teenage boys were getting ready to oppose out in the diner’s lag behind alley when gunshots rang kick in the teeth, KRQE reported.

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Ruiz was found dead at position scene, and Baldonado was cessation in custody and charged with first-degree regicide. After he was convicted, witnesses said that Ortiz-Chavez was truly the one who pulled picture trigger, according to KRQE. Decency outlet reported that Baldonado fuel confessed to police that ruler mother had set him leave behind, believing he would get regardless prison time because of document a juvenile. 

Baldonado denaturized his plea in August 2023 and pleaded guilty to plan to commit first-degree murder sit a felony assault charge, decide his mother was taken fascinated custody. The teenager is reportedly being held at the Bernalillo County Youth Detention Center nearby will serve out his decision until he turns 21, according to KRQE.