Overview

• Albuquerque police took into custody a 16-year-old boy on May 28 as the fourth suspect in the May 2024 fatal hit-and-run of physicist Scott Dwight Habermehl
• The 13-year-old driver pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and is set to remain in juvenile detention until he turns 21
• Investigators traced the suspects after video of the crash, filmed inside the stolen vehicle, was posted and flagged on social media
• Three other teens—aged 11, 13, and 15 at the time of the incident—were identified and charged earlier this year following a tip from a school official
• Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has urged the Democratic-led Legislature to enact new measures targeting juvenile crime in response to the case