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An arrest has been made in an investigation regarding the death of a host parent for UNM foreign exchange students.
Albuquerque police said Thursday that Amy Herrera, wife of Marc Herrera, 37, who was shot and killed at a party held for foreign exchange students at his Northeast Albuquerque home in July, was arrested that day. According to the arrest warrant, Amy Herrera is being charged with murdering her husband and tampering with evidence.
Marc Herrera’s death was originally ruled a suicide but was later investigated as a homicide after an August report from the Office of the Medical Examiner concluded that Marc Herrera died from a “gunshot wound of the head” and was “shot by an assailant with (a) handgun.” According to the report, witnesses at the party said Marc Herrera was intoxicated and instructed all of the students at the party to move into another room at gunpoint. Amy Herrera said she and her husband later went into the bathroom, where Marc Herrera forced her to shoot him as he held her hand on the gun.
But the medical examiner reported fractures and microscopic particles of soot in Marc Herrera’s mouth that “suggested that the weapon was fired from just inside or just outside the oral cavity,” and that “the manner of death is homicide.”
According to the Albuquerque Journal, Amy Herrera is at the Metro Detention Center on a no-bond hold.
Check with the Daily Lobo for more on this story as it develops.
