No charges appear to have been filed in a case where a couple barged into a Chamita house, pistol-whipped a woman, got into a fight over a gun that went off and were shot at as they fled.
Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s Sgt. Cedric Patterson wrote in an incident report that he was sent to a house on State Road 74 on Aug. 15 for a woman moaning in the background and a man asking if she had been shot, followed by a second call reporting shots fired and a car fleeing the area.
At the house, Patterson met Brandon Salazar and Daniela Padilla, who both appeared bloody, the deputy’s incident report said. Padilla told Patterson that “he hit me with the gun,” referring to a man she only knew as “Billy,” he wrote.
The couple was in the bathroom of the house when Ivana Ulibarri and Billy came in with a gun and Ulibarri pointed a gun at Salazar and Billy also pointed a gun at him. Billy hit Padilla in the head with the gun, Patterson wrote.
“Padilla stated Salazar then grabbed the firearm and shoved it towards the door,” Patterson wrote. “Padilla stated she then ducked down and could hear the gunshots. Padilla advised me there was a child and an elderly woman inside of the residence where the incident took place.”
As he walked to his unit, Patterson spotted a man talking to a neighbor who wasn’t initially there when he arrived. The man, Jeremiah Martinez, said Billy and Ulibarri were upset that homeowner Rudy Martinez had kicked them out and he believed they came back to the house to retrieve their belongings, Patterson wrote.
“Jeremiah stated he walked out the back door of the residence, then heard gunshots and a female scream,” Patterson wrote. “Jeremiah mentioned that his little cousin and his grandmother were inside the residence at the time of the shooting.”
Martinez was located down the road. He gave Patterson consent to search the house for the shell casings and walked through, pointing out the new bullet holes in the wall, and differentiating them from the old bullet holes, the report said.
Patterson collected three different kinds of shell casings, as well as six live rounds.
As he was talking to Padilla, he overheard Salazar telling another deputy that he fired back at Billy and Ulibarri with a .22-caliber rifle, by the bathroom, and he shot two to three times before the rifle jammed, consistent with the rounds found in the house. More casings were located in the driveway and roadway of the house, Patterson wrote.
The case was forwarded to detectives for further investigation.
No one, including Ulibarri, appears to have been yet charged with a crime.