Officers focus on ABQ gas station

IT'S ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS GAS STATIONS IN ALBUQUERQUE. MURDERS ... ASSAULTS ... YOU NAME...  More »

IT'S ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS GAS STATIONS IN ALBUQUERQUE. MURDERS ... ASSAULTS ... YOU NAME IT, THE GIANT AT COORS AND ARENAL DEMANDS A LOT OF ATTENTION FROM THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT. ERIC KAHNERT IS LIVE THERE TO SHOW YOU WHAT'S BEING DONE ABOUT THE TROUBLE SPOT, ERIC? A MURDER HAPPENS HERE JUST ABOUT EVERY OTHER YEAR .... AND DEPUTIES GET CALLED OUT HERE JUST ABOUT EVERY OTHER DAY. THE UNDERSHERIFF SAYS IT'S NOT THE GAS STATION'S FAULT, BUT THE CUSTOMERS. THE GIANT AT COORS AND ARENAL IS A GIANT PROBLEM SPOT FOR BERNALILLO COUNTY DEPUTIES. ABOUT 3 WEEKS AGO A MAN WAS MURDERED THERE AFTER A FENDER BENDER ... A BULLET EVEN LANDED IN THE NEXT DOOR MCDONALDS PLAYPLACE. DEPUTIES RELEASED THIS SKETCH: STILL NO SUSPECTS. 2:15 'there are a lot of calls there.-1' IN FACT, DEPUTIES WERE CALLED OUT TO THE GIANT 125 TIMES OVER THE PAST YEAR ... FOR TWO DOZEN DIFFERENT REASONS. THE TOP 5 INCLUDE DISTURBANCE, LARCENY, DRUNKS, ATTEMPT TO LOCATE, AND 911 HANGUPS. 1:37 'that particular intersection I think gets a lot of activity because it's a gathering point, there's food there there's gas there there's liquor there.-10'21 YEAR OLD BRANDON RUSSELL TRIES TO AVOID THE GAS STATION IF HE CAN. 15:00 'a lot of people try to mess with you, start fights with you.-2' 2:45 'it's no secret we have a lot of gang activity in the south valley, so we have over- lapping gang territories in the area.-6' THE UNDERSHERIFF SAYS BUSINESSES THAT GENERATE A LOT OF CALLS AREN'T TO BLAME, OFTEN TIMES THE CUSTOMERS ARE AT FAULT. 4:06 'they certainly don't want shop lifters there, they don't want drunks in their business, they don't want minors buying alcohol.-7' TONIGHT A SPOKESMAN FOR GIANT SAYS '...a lot of incidents originate off premise and end up there...', SAYING '... a lot of people in that neighborhood don't have phones, so they run to our store for emergencies...'TRUE SAYS THE UNDERSHERIFF: 2:28 'some people go there to call police for activity that's occurred some place else because it's a lighted business.-8' THE UNDERSHERIFF SAYS HE'D LIKE TO SEE A BETTER SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM HERE, THE GIANT SPOKESMAN SAYS HIS COMPANY IS WILLING TO WORK WITH THE DEPARTMENT TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN. REPORTING LIVE IN THE SOUTHVALLEY, EKEYWN4.  « Less