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Suspect faces murder charge after GreenTree Inn shooting victim dies
Updated Jun 4, 2021
The man accused in a shooting Saturday at the GreenTree Inn on Cerrillos Road faces an open count of murder following the death early Thursday morning of 59-year-old Marty Little.
Little, who suffered a gunshot wound to the head, was pronounced dead around 5 a.m. Thursday, Capt. Aaron Ortiz of the Santa Fe Police Department said in a news release.
Little, a motel guest at the time of the shooting, had been living in the city since at least April, according to police. He leaves behind an adult son, police said, and possibly other family members.
Court documents say Anthony Ortiz, 27, who was arrested on unrelated charges Tuesday in Española, confessed to the shooting in an interview with New Mexico State Police officers. He was taken into custody following a high-speed chase in a stolen Jeep, according to an affidavit, and was found with a handgun and small amounts of narcotics.
Ortiz also is accused of stealing a vehicle from motel guests at the GreenTree Inn after shooting Little. That vehicle was recovered in Albuquerque.
Suspect faces murder charge after GreenTree Inn shooting victim dies
Updated Jun 4, 2021
The man accused in a shooting Saturday at the GreenTree Inn on Cerrillos Road faces an open count of murder following the death early Thursday morning of 59-year-old Marty Little.
Little, who suffered a gunshot wound to the head, was pronounced dead around 5 a.m. Thursday, Capt. Aaron Ortiz of the Santa Fe Police Department said in a news release.
Little, a motel guest at the time of the shooting, had been living in the city since at least April, according to police. He leaves behind an adult son, police said, and possibly other family members.
Court documents say Anthony Ortiz, 27, who was arrested on unrelated charges Tuesday in Española, confessed to the shooting in an interview with New Mexico State Police officers. He was taken into custody following a high-speed chase in a stolen Jeep, according to an affidavit, and was found with a handgun and small amounts of narcotics.
Ortiz also is accused of stealing a vehicle from motel guests at the GreenTree Inn after shooting Little. That vehicle was recovered in Albuquerque.