Overview

• The New Mexico Department of Justice accepted Albuquerque police’s request for an outside review and assigned an agent to the case.
• APD and the state medical investigator maintain that Givan died by suicide in September 2024 with no signs of foul play.
• Police say Givan was found hanging by a chain from a pillar outside a vacant business near Corrales Road and 528, not from a tree.
• Public attention resurfaced after Givan’s sister filed a missing-person report on Oct. 1, 2025, which police say prompted them to explain the prior suicide ruling.
• APD cites a hospital bracelet from the day before, a notebook recovered at the scene, body‑camera observations, and the autopsy as evidence supporting the suicide determination.