ALAMOSA — The man who died of fatal gunshot wounds sustained on Thursday evening in the area of 17th and State Avenue in Alamosa has been identified as 44-year-old Enrique Parra of Alamosa.
The identification was made and released to the public by Alamosa County Coroner Joe Dzuris. Dzuris further stated the manner in which Parra died was homicide.
As has been reported in the Valley Courier, shortly after 6 p.m. on Thursday, officers with the Alamosa Police Department (APD) were dispatched to a report of shots being fired. Upon arrival at the scene, officers found Parra who had been shot and immediately started life-saving measures. Upon being transported to the San Luis Valley Health Regional Medical Center, Parra was pronounced deceased.
On Friday, the suspect Larry Chavez, 33, of Alamosa, was taken into custody in Santa Fe, N.M., and charged with second-degree murder, theft. APD Chief George Dingfelder credited the U.S. Marshals and the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office with the arrest.
Earlier on Thursday, deputies from the Alamosa County Sheriff’s Office responded to a shooting north of Alamosa where a suspect fired a shot, but no one was injured. APD had considered Chavez a person of interest in that shooting, but no further information on that incident is known at this time.
