Police: Teen Charged in Deaths of Two Adults, Three Children

By Daniel Arkin, Staff writer, NBC News

Police: Teen Charged in Deaths of Two Adults, Three Children

January 20, 2013 Updated Jan 20, 2013 at 12:01 PM PDT

A 15-year-old boy has been charged in the shooting deaths of two adults and three children in southwest Albuquerque, N.M., local police say, according to local news media.

The unidentified male juvenile was arrested and charged with two counts of murder and three counts of child abuse resulting in death, KOB-TV 4 reported.

Bernalillo County sheriff's deputies responded to a private residence in the city's South Valley area around 9:15 p.m. Saturday. The bodies of a man, a woman, two girls and a boy were discovered in the home, each riddled with multiple gunshot wounds, reports said.

Police found multiple weapons, including an assault rifle, near the scene of the crime, according to KOB-TV.

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