PATRONS SPARKS A HEATED PROTEST.// HE'S A SUSPECTED KILLER -- ON THE RUN FOR NEARLY EIGHT MONTHS... TONIGHT ALBUQUERQUE POLICE CLOSE IN ON THE MAN THEY SAY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR TWO DEADLY SHOOTINGS. A SWAT STANDOFF INVOLVING A MAN NAMED ROBERT ROMERO ENDED A LITTLE MORE THAN AN HOUR AGO. CRIS ORNELAS REPORTED ON THE DOUBLE MURDER POLICE SAY ROMERO IS TIED TO. HE'S LIVE IN THE NEWSROOM WITH HOW POLICE FINALLY GOT A WANTED MAN IN CUSTODY. CRIS. POLICE SAY ROBERT ROMERO WAS INSIDE A HOME ON ARNO WITH A RELATIVE AND A PREGNANT WOMAN POLICE SAY IS EITHER HIS WIFE OR GIRLFRIEND. BUT AFTER THREE HOURS OF NEGOTIATING ROMERO GAVE HIM SELF UP PEACEFULLY IT ALL STARTED MORE THAN 5 HOURS AGO WHEN POLICE GOT A TIP. 11:43 'when the officers arrived they saw people on the inside of the house ever since then they've been announcing for them to come out with their hands up' THE ALBUQUERQUE SWAT TEAM DESCENDED ON THIS NEIGHBORHOOD ABOUT 5 O'CLOCK THIS AFTERNOON. STREET OFFICERS CAME HERE AFTER GETTING A CRIME STOPPERS TIP THAT 22 YEAR OLD ROBERT ROMERO WAS INSIDE ONE OF THE HOMES. 11:38 'the information is that this individual is wanted for homicide' POLICE SAY ROMERO WAS THE TRIGGER MAN IN A SHOOTING LAST NOVEMBER THAT LEFT TWO MEN DEAD. COPS SAY THE VICTIMS WERE TRYING TO GET A GUN FROM ROMERO AND GREGERY MERAZ AND FIGURED THEY'D DO THAT THROUGH STRONGARM ROBBERY. THE VICTIMS TRIED TO GET THE DROP ON ROMERO AND HIS ACCOMPLICE BY POINTING A SHOTGUN AT THE DOOR -- THEN KNOCKING. BUT POLICE SAID THEN WHEN THE DOOR OF THE APARTMENT OPENED, ROMERO PULLED THE VICTIMS INSIDE BY THE BARREL OF THE SHOTGUN AND KILLED BOTH OF THEM -- POSSIBLY WITH THE GUN THEY WERE THEIR TO STEAL. 8:06 'they were saying come out of your house to the south side of your house'P-A ANNOUNCEMENTS WERE THE FIRST THING NEIGHBORS HEARD THIS AFTERNOON. 8:01 'on south broadway or anywhere in the south east when you hear the megaphones its not a good sign' SOON THE STREETS WERE LINED WITH PEOPLE TRYING TO SEE WHAT WAS HAPPENING. POLICE DID ARREST ROMERO'S FELLOW SUSPE
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