Cops Discover Horrifying Secret Behind Dorm Door

He pulls a gun out of his waistband, throws it on the ground, does a back flip,

and then runs off.

Yeah, following the blood trail.

I just want to make sure we don't have a dead body because they're cut up.

F***.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

I have a male on the ground.

Don't shoot me.

Not just any person, a 14-year-old kid.

A 14-year-old?

God damn it. When police at the University of New Mexico receive chaotic reports of a shooting, vandalism and missing children on an otherwise quiet campus, the response pulls baffled officers in different directions. As they begin to suspect the incidents are all connected, one horrifying discovery plunges the night

into a full-blown crisis.

That's when I just started losing my mind all of a sudden. I couldn't believe what I did.

The following is based on official police records and some of the footage has never been seen before until now. Please note that all persons charged with a crime are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.

At around 1.30 AM on July 25th, 2025, a mother calls 911 to report a possible emergency at the University of New Mexico campus.

What's going on there?

So my stepson called. He has my son, he's 15.

There was three of them playing a video game.

They heard gunshots. Did they see anything or they weren't involved in anything?

As far as I know, my stepson says that they just heard it. But they left the room and they didn't see my son, my biological son.

What's your son's name?

Michael Lamont.

Dispatchers transfer the caller, Leona Lamont, to the UNM Police Department, the university's dedicated law enforcement agency. Her son, 14-year-old Michael Lamont, is one week shy of his 15th birthday, but by the time she makes her report,

officers are already at the campus responding to glass break alarms triggered at a building called Mesa Vista Hall, just across the street from the student dorms, separated by a parking lot and tennis courts. While there, dispatchers receive another 911 call.

Hi, I would just like to report something my friend and I just saw in a lot near the tennis courts. Okay, what's going on? We were just parked there and with the windows up and someone was trying to speak to us outside the car and we ignored him and then he brandished a gun,

like a firearm, and he like unloaded it and threw it on the ground and then we just drove away.

Officers quickly review security footage from the parking lot and what they witness is anything but ordinary.

He pulls a gun out of his waistband, unloads the magazine, racks it back, throws it on the ground, does a back flip,

and then runs off.

The young male wearing light colored pants and no shirt is seen on camera retrieving the gun before he runs away, leaving officers searching for an armed suspect that could be anywhere on campus. That is until they receive a tip on his location

from the Albuquerque Police Department.

I guess a 19-year-old male was FaceTiming his parents, I guess on top of the roof of either the Einstein's Bagels

or the Technology something business there.

Okay.

But I guess he's on the roof. He said that he was laced some unknown drug and then he passed out on the roof.

Officers head up to the roof and the connections between the two separate reports quickly begin to emerge.

Wait, these are the pants from that dude, isn't it?

It's not 21. Oh right here. Yeah, it's this one. Is this one blood? No. Hello?

As they continue their search, officers spot a trail of blood that leads away from the

rooftops.

Where's the blood?

We found it.

Yeah.

We found it.

We found it.

We found it.

We found it. As they continue their search, officers spot a trail of blood that leads away from the rooftops.

He's been bleeding out full of blood.

Where's the blood?

Yeah, way down.

Yeah.

Well, we don't know if he's higher or lower, so...

That'll f***ing be a key, this is ridiculous.

Hopefully he's not bleeding out, bro.

That's a lot of glass you broke up there.

Hey, dude.

Where did you see the glass go? on the other side, that's on the roof. So he broke three windows over there. And the close search looked like the pants of the kid that flushed the gun.

With an armed teenager still at large, possibly under the influence and likely injured, finding him as quickly as possible becomes an urgent priority. Meanwhile, Leanna's son, 14-year-old Michael Lamont, is still unaccounted for.

The situation grows even more complex when police receive a call from the UNM hospital telling them a university student has arrived at their emergency room. The victim, 19-year-old Daniel Archuleta, has a non-life-threatening graze wound

to the back of his head. He arrived at the hospital with 19-year-old Zion Mira, the half-brother of 14-year-old missing teen, Michael Lamont. Police questioned Zion, whose account ties each of the incidents together. Zion explains that the suspected gunman,

who he calls John Pork, is a friend of Daniel's. By his account, the four of them, John, Daniel, Zion, and Michael, had been hanging out in Daniel's dorm room just before John began shooting at them.

I'm sitting right here,

and then my dad, I'm sitting like right there. The bullet shoots, it goes flying past my face and it hits him in the head, and then blood starts running everywhere. I guess it was a human.

What was he wearing, John?

I had no shirt on.

You had no shirt on. He had no shirt. Did he have light blue jeans by any chance? Light blue jeans? Yeah.

His description matches the suspect officers are still trying to locate. But based on their knowledge of his actions on the roof and in the parking lot, officers question whether playing video games was really all the teens were doing.

You need to be honest, you're not even in trouble, bro.

Well, when we got there, they were like kind of drinking and stuff. And then I cracked one open and then I took a sip of it and I placed it down and I go to hop on the game and then that's when everything starts going off. As soon as the shots went off, we were trying to hide under the bed or trying to get down because we didn't know what was happening and we didn't know if he was stuff. And then that's when I just cracked open the window open and then we just went, you know, looking out right there.

Where's your little brother?

My little brother is still there.

I don't know where he is.

His name is Michael.

Police attempt to question Daniel, but he refuses to speak with officers without his parents. The sergeant on scene heads to his cruiser to provide an update to his superiors on the situation. Boss, we got a shooting that evidently occurred

here on campus, happened in one of the dorm rooms. We have a name on him. He's the one that they initially saw with the gun, remember? When I first called you to do a potentially an alert. Okay, and then after that, then we had another call of a guy up on the roof calling his mom that he was drugged up.

Then we went to Mesa Vista, found three broken windows, blood. We just got through with that one. And then now we have this that's going down.

Meanwhile, after receiving no updates about her son, Leona once again calls UNM police.

UNM police, may I help you?

Hi, yes, I called about Michael Lamont.

Yeah, yeah.

Did you guys check the apartment?

We haven't been able to yet.

We're working on another person that's gone missing.

What do you mean? The other person's Daniel Archuleta. He's been shot.

No, this is a totally separate call from that.

Okay. Are you guys going to check the apartment?

As soon as I get someone that can go over there, I'll get them to go over there.

He could be shot in the apartment bleeding out.

I'll let my sergeant know.

Oh my God. this is ridiculous.

Am I breaking the violation if I try to go look myself?

No, ma'am.

Liana will soon arrive at the UNM campus to look for her missing child, but she's not the only one missing her son, as the mother of the suspected shooter also contacts dispatch.

Yes, my son's missing. They said, you guys are the ones in charge of this. I've been calling around for over an hour. He said over an hour ago that he was ODing or something. He was showed around building. I'm sorry. Is this reference to Michael? No, John Fuentes.

Please let him be okay. He'll be okay, Dad. Please let him be okay, Dad. Please let him be, okay, God, please let him be, okay.

While Zion initially provided the name John Pork, the suspected shooter is confirmed to be 18-year-old John Fuentes, who's not a student at the university. UNM police follow the blood trails that lead away from the roof in an attempt to find John,

who may need urgent medical attention.

Yeah, following the blood trail. It's, you see how it's kind of moving in this direction, like almost little teardrops? Yeah, well, I saw them on the roof, like screaming.

Goes into the grass.

Where does it go from here?

It's good.

It's going good.

It's just going in circles.

Security footage shows John after he left his pants on the rooftop, now only wearing boxers, lightly jogging across campus as blood drips from his injured arms. Officers follow just minutes behind him,

tracing the blood trail, but ultimately failing to catch up. One security camera captures John passing empty police cruisers as a dark pickup truck enters the parking lot. Without waiting for it to come to a full stop, a woman can be seen exiting the truck

and racing toward John, embracing him with a hug. The unknown woman ushers John into the vehicle and together they drive away. Police round the corner just 10 minutes later, but they have no idea their suspect is long gone.

I just wanna make sure we don't have a dead body cause they're cut up. And we still need somebody to follow up with that other call.

What is it?

Mom called that she couldn't get ahold of their loved one

from Casas.

Meanwhile, Liana Lamont has arrived at the Casas del Rio student housing complex, desperate to find her 14 year old son, Michael. It's been approximately one hour since her first report to 911.

You want a policeman to help you?

Yes, there is still no one here at this room for Michael Lamont. to 911. is at the hospital. We've never gotten any calls about shots being fired inside the Casas del Rio.

I don't know where he got that information from,

but we never got a call about that.

Oh my gosh.

Believe me, when someone shoots a gun on campus, we get hundreds of calls all at once,

and we never got any calls.

What the heck?

Officers finally meet with Liana, who's standing just outside the Casas del Rio student housing complex.

Right now, my partner is grabbing the RA.

Okay.

That way we can just key into the room after we knock and announce, okay?

Okay.

What I'm gonna have you do is you're gonna stay out here.

Okay.

Okay? Okay.

And what's your son's name? My son's name is Michael Lamont. The son's name that owns the room is Daniel Archuleta.

Daniel Archuleta.

Just outside of Daniel's dorm room, the resident advisor delivers a set of electronic keys.

Flashlight orange.

So, different sound.

With the keys not working, the resident advisor contacts the building manager. While outside, Michael's mom grows more restless, asking for updates.

I have no idea, ma'am. I'm still trying to figure out the whole situation.

But there's nobody in the room?

We're currently outside of the room.

The window's broken on the outside.

You guys haven't gone in?

Not yet, ma'am. Which room is it that you're you're

looking at? Okay. The blinds are it's open. Okay. Time for seventeen PD. Just annotate on the cat. There's an open window to the room possibly to the room with the blinds broken and the windows open. I'm not making an approach yet.

I'm waiting for somebody else to come out here so we can make our approach.

Backup soon arrives and at close to 3.15 AM, nearly two hours after Leanna's initial report to 911, officers prepare to breach through the open window.

Okay, this is what I need you to do. Just cover me right here because we still have the suspect outstanding. We don't know if he's back in the room, OK?

Yeah.

OK.

And wait till she gets up here, and then we'll be able to do our thing. I'm going to go around the bush and try to get up there. And I'm going to try to see if I can look inside, if the suspect's still in there, OK? Yeah. I can see that playstation that he was talking about.

It's right here. I don't know where the gunshot's at though. 1227 knock on the door.

Yeah.

You going through the window?

You want another person? Yeah. Hold the up. Go in. You going through the window? You want another person?

Yeah.

I'll go.

Did you go through the window?

That's all, buddy. Hold the arc for one second.

We're going to try to make entry through the window.

Police department, if there's anybody inside, make your presence known. This is the police department. If there's anybody inside of this room, 117, make your presence known.

Met with only silence, they cautiously head in, wholly unprepared for the horrifying discovery that awaits them.

Ready? Jesus Christ. Oh, ****. Star 43, you're going to help me out on the ground.

Don't shove me.

What do you mean?

Hold this door and direct them.

Hey, dude.

Dude.

10-4, helo 117, GSW, head back to the head.

Looks 10-7. F***. F***. God damn it.

A teenage boy hangs limply from a chair through and through gunshot wound to the head. Officers clear the apartment, noticing another broken window, as well as smears of blood across the adjacent wall. They search for a firearm, but don't find one anywhere in the room. Step out.

Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. across the adjacent wall. They search for a firearm, but don't find one anywhere in the room.

Step out.

Nobody comes in.

That way or this way? This is all closed off. If this is subject number three or missing subject number four, I was observing cameras.

A sergeant quickly arrives and attempts to get up to speed on the current situation.

From what I can tell from the CAD, kid called mom saying there's a gunshot, something. Mom couldn't reach him, couldn't reach him, couldn't reach him.

Mom showed up.

Is there anybody in there?

Can you see anything out there?

No, we're all busy.

Here, I can take you. I'm going outside just to keep the window from somebody peeking in.

All right, where are the, are you sure he's not breathing?

I hear anything.

Purple, purple lights, no pulse.

All right.

Get 43, is your call ready?

It's already in our house.

OK, what is the person that she's looking for?

What is her son's name?

Michael Lamont.

And is he missing?

Yes, he's currently missing.

We don't know where he is.

Correct.

You think that's him?

Yeah.

OK.

How did she get involved?

Did he call her? He called, from what she told me, he called her saying something about gunfire or someone was shot. She kept trying to reach him, could not reach him, called us while we were dealing with the guy on the roof.

One officer heads outside to guide arriving paramedics to the dorm room, running into Michael's mother, Liana, along the way.

It's me. Can you mind taking a seat, please? Just sit right there, please. Hey guys, it's back here. Yeah, that's, yeah, I know, we know who she is. Possible mom of the 10-7. It's this one right here,

kind of right next to Wharton Park. I'll get you in this way and then we'll come down. That way she hopefully doesn't see you.

Paramedics enter the room, but there's nothing they can do for the victim, who is beyond any hope of saving. One medic briefly checks in with the officer who's clearly struggling with the grim situation.

You doing all right, man?

It's not a stranger to it, but it's just the age just kills me right here. It's like one moment they're playing PlayStation 5 and the other one, dead on the ground.

But they'll soon learn that what happened in room 117 is not so simple and that the truth stretches far beyond what they have been led to believe. For now, with multiple unsecured crime scenes across campus, as well as blood trailing through plazas and parking lots, the sergeant determines this is more than one department

can handle alone.

Call APD, ask them if we have any priority one calls and they'll take them for us. We're calling in the troops.

Everybody's busy right now. After checking in with his supervisor, the sergeant receives instruction regarding Daniel, the gunshot victim who's still at the hospital and refusing to provide a statement.

Okay, get Javier to get his phone secure.

Okay.

I don't want that kid calling people and text messaging and all kinds of stuff. Get his phone, he could be a suspect right now.

We don't know that.

That is correct, okay. So, I know he might try to run or who knows what.

Yeah, he won't talk to us. Like I said, he said he was not gonna talk to us.

That's suspicious as all get out, okay.

Meanwhile, the Sergeant meets with Liana, who's now been joined by Michael's sister, Erica, as well as their grandmother.

Is there nobody in that room?

There is someone in that room and they were hurt, okay? But I don't know who they are, okay?

Did they get taken to the hospital?

They're working with them right now, okay?

So they were checked out.

Hoping to confirm the person in the room was her brother, Erica shows the sergeant a photograph, while Liana describes what he was last seen wearing. Tragically, the description of 14 year old Michael Lamont matches the victim. The sergeant quickly heads to his cruiser

and contacts his superior.

Let's get them, let's get mom and them separated.

Let's get mom at a minimum placed in a unit.

She's already asking. I don't know for sure.

We're not gonna make any, if anything, let's call APD to get a chaplain

to make notification

and to comfort her before we give her N49.

Okay. Once he returns to the family, Erica calls Zion, who is still at the hospital. To confirm the sergeant's own suspicions of the victim's identity, he asks an urgent question.

Where do you think Michael would be at? Do you know?

They just confirmed his death.

What?

Yeah.

Michael.

Yeah.

Who told you that?

He's at the hospital.

Um, I don't know.

One of the people I think over here. Who? I don't, I'm not too sure. We just heard on the radio that he didn't make it out.

What radio?

What, what, what radio, Zion?

Who's the officer?

Who?

One of the officers next door.

One of the officers next door? Did they say Michael Lamont?

I'm not too sure I could double check. Well, we might not have to double check.

Sam, three of the units, secure your radios

over here and start.

The family is then separated as the sergeant places Liana in a cruiser and gives her no confirmation of her son's condition. Meanwhile, as the sun rises and students begin waking up, the University of New Mexico campus is placed on lockdown. University police begin to coordinate with Albuquerque PD

and the New Mexico National Guard to secure the campus, as well as both crime scenes, including the dorm room and the rooftop of Mesa Vista, where an officer locates a critical piece of evidence that was earlier missed.

Hey, I located the firearm and a set of keys

on top of the roof of Mesa Vista.

The Glock 19 9mm is confirmed to be a stolen firearm. Though the gun has now been recovered, the suspected shooter is still at large, a fact that's shared by the local news media to the public. Phone calls from frightened parents of students, many of them on campus for new student orientation,

soon began flooding in.

Hi, my daughter is on campus right now. Can I come get her? No, ma'am, campus is closed.

Is there anything else, ma'am, you need it?

Uh, yeah, I need my daughter. I'm calling because an incident happened over there at your campus last night, and I wanna make sure that my son is alive. Okay. His name is Michael.

Okay.

And he's been missing for a year.

Okay.

And he's been missing for a year.

Okay.

And he's been missing for a year.

Okay.

And he's been missing for a year. Okay. And he's been missing for a year.

Okay. hasn't received. I'm calling because an incident happened over there at your campus last night and I want

to make sure that my son is alive.

Okay.

His name is Michael, last name Lamont. Michael's not being found or I don't know what's happening, but I need some information. If he's okay, did he pass away?

If so, I want to go down there and make sure that it's him.

Okay.

Yeah.

Hold on one moment, sir. Is there anybody dead? That's all I wanna know.

I can't release any information.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

Michael's mother, Liana, is brought to the police station where investigators finally deliver the tragic news about her son.

You wanna inform me that he is no longer alive? I know it's a lot that's going on right now, especially after hearing that. We wanna talk to you once you process everything. I know it might take you a minute.

No.

Take all the time you need.

I think he'll be okay. I'm just, I knew I had a feeling. My heart, everything, it just, it's hard.

Yeah, absolutely.

I'm sorry for your loss.

The heartbreaking confirmation is shared with Michael's big sister, Erica, who quickly becomes inconsolable.

Be confirmed. Be confirmed. with Michael's big sister, Erica, who quickly becomes inconsolable. No. No. No. Bring me further. Oh God. Bring me further. Oh my God. Bring me further.

No. No. What do you know? Have they caught him?

No one has any information Michael, what do you know? Have they caught him?

No one knows anything.

I'm Michael.

You was my baby brother.

Erica's cell phone rings and Michael's father, Mark, also learns of the death of his son.

Dad! Where was Michael? It was Michael? Dad! Don't f***ing cry.

I know.

I know. I'm so sorry. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. I know! I know!

How the f*** was he there? I don't know. I don't know what he was doing.

To provide the grieving family with more comfort, the officer moves the cruiser into the shade and out of the heat.

When can we see him?

You're not going to want to see him. You're not going to want to see him. You're not going to want to see him.

I at least want to see his head. No. I want to see his f***ing face.

You don't want that memory.

You don't want the memory. You don't want that memory. You don't want it. I'm telling you. His head. Michael. You're not going to see him.

No, I will not let you.

I know. I know. You shouldn't have even been with Diane. I know. I know.

Michael shouldn't have been with Diane. I know. I know. No.

I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. and how is he getting shot?

Why is he out drinking and smoking and doing that shit at home?

Why?

Why, why, why?

Why?

With the shooter, John Fuentes, still at large, investigators with the New Mexico State Police began the challenging task of uncovering the truth of what happened in the dorm room. They head to the hospital to speak with Zion, who still refers to the shooter as John Pork.

We were like about to load up a game and then John Pork and my brother Michael, they were like at that little desk and then I didn't even know what happened. Like we were loading up a game and then we just heard a shot go off.

And then all our ears are ringing. And as soon as he shot, he looked right at us. He shot, went flying past my face and hit. And I think that was the bullet that hit Daniel in the head back here. And then, and then, but once that first shot went off, we were like,

what the f***? What the f***?

And then he turned at us right away and then he just started just kind of unloading the clip on us. And then we were trying to take cover. I go under the bed, Daniel's like trying to hide behind something. He's just bleeding all over. And then I don't know where Michael is. And we're trying to say like, stop, stop, stop, safe. Like, like John Pork, it's okay, bro.

Like, stop, stop. And then I guess in the dorm, there's two windows. So he went out under the window and then we didn't know if he left or anything. So we were just trying to get out the other window where Dan and his bed and his like carpet

and his little gaming areas. We got out that window, we opened it, and then we pushed it, and then we just got off from there.

Zion explains that after the pair fled, he called his mother who drove him and Daniel straight to the hospital.

I didn't know what to do, because as soon as he booked out from the window, I didn't know if he still had a gun or if he was still on campus, so we just tried to call my mom or call someone so we could help, because I was freaking out

and I didn't know where my little brother was. I didn't know if he was dead or alive yet.

But Zion's half-sister, Erica, says she spoke with him just after the incident. And although parts of his account to investigators mirror what he told her, one conflicting detail stands out.

So I was like, what actually happened? Tell me everything. And he tells me that they were in the dorm, just chilling and Zion and his friend, don't know the kid's name, like Daniel or something. They were playing video games.

The guy that was talking to Michael, I guess, flipped his head, shot Michael in the head, and I guess Zion said the bullet went through and I was like, oh my gosh.

Zion's admission that he saw the bullet wound to Michael's head doesn't match what he told investigators or the officers at the hospital. To both, he claimed he had no idea whether his brother was even injured. Once you and Dan like got out of the room,

where'd you guys like go? Did you guys like go directly to like your car or did you guys like run around like the campus

or anything?

We didn't know if we should go back, go back or stuff like that. And then we just hopped in my car and we just left.

Security footage, however,

would tell a completely different story. At 1209 AM, Daniel and Zion can be seen running away from the dorms. They appear to then calmly walk back and forth, almost as if deciding whether or not to return. After several minutes, Zion points towards the parking lot, but Daniel grabs him by the shoulders

and gestures toward the dorms. The two appear to be engaged in some sort of discussion before they ultimately head back toward the room. When they're seen again several minutes later, Daniel is now carrying a bag in his hand and Zion is wearing what appears to be a dark backpack. Erica volunteers information to investigators that suggests her half-brother may have something to hide. And, okay.

Zion does have a gun. Okay.

Does he usually carry?

Is he usually armed?

Sometimes he'll keep it in his backpack.

Based on the footage, investigators believe that Zion and Daniel returned to the room where Michael was either dead or dying and took evidence or items of importance. But as the firearm suspected to have been used to shoot Michael has been recovered from the roof,

investigators are left to question what exactly it was they may have taken.

I know Zion carries the gun because he sells, I think, weed or nick. I don't know. He traps or something. I don't know. He's, he traps or something. I don't know what it's called, but.

According to investigators, traps is street slang referring to selling illegal drugs and can also refer to a specific place where illegal drugs are manufactured or sold.

He sells weed and what?

Nick, nicotine, like vapes.

Okay.

So he carries a gun because he's kind of dealing

with that stuff? Yes.

Zion made no mention of this to investigators but did admit that John had been using illicit substances before the shooting took place. Uh he had like a little bag of like cocaine. Okay

do you think he was under the influence of it? Yeah probably because then I kind of assumed

because then he was like profusely like sweating a lot, like he had sweat like all over his face, like on his nose and like,

like just like sweat droplets, I don't know.

Okay. When it comes to the firearm, however, Zion shares no information about where it came from or suggests any possibility that it may be his.

Does your mom know that Zion had handguns and weapons?

No, my mom does not know at all. What about your dad? I'm the only person that knows.

And you haven't told anyone?

No.

Michael and Zion's father, Mark, tells investigators that he has a restraining order due to an unrelated domestic issue and hasn't been around either of his boys in months. While he may not have been aware that Zion had handguns, he shares knowledge of other illegal habits.

If he's kind of hanging with Big Brother, then I'm assuming that if Big Brother uses alcohol and weed.

He's using it.

Yeah, do you know that for a fact or assuming?

No, I know that for a fact. I've seen him on his Instagram smoking weed.

Yeah.

And I just can't do nothing about it. And he knows I can't do nothing about it cause I can't go over there cause I'll just go to jail.

Yeah, yeah.

Or else I would have went and whipped that long time ago.

Yeah.

While the information shared by Michael's family is shocking, investigators are still left to wonder why the 14 year old was with his older brother at a college campus in the first place.

When he's hanging out in a dorm room with someone mom doesn't really know at one o'clock in the morning and assuming mom didn't know there was weed or alcohol or whatever, but at 14, is mom cool with that? Or did they take off and kind of do their own thing today? Or do they normally do that kind of stuff?

Okay, so they do it, but they do it behind my mom's back. She doesn't really like to discipline at all. So, and Michael being Michael, he kind of just went out and did his own thing.

Regardless of why Michael was there, his father, Mark, remains suspicious.

I don't think that Z's story matches up from what I've heard of it, but I haven't got to speak to Zion personally yet. I think his story has a bunch of holes in it, which just leaves me more questions. And then his friend doesn't want to talk. Why is he scared?

Who is he scared of? However, Zion offers an excuse for his friend doesn't want to talk? Why? Is he scared? Who is he scared of?

However, Zion offers an excuse for his friend Daniel.

He doesn't want to talk at all. I was trying to ask him and he used to be like, Zion, shut the f*** up. I don't want to talk about it but just f***ing leave it.

Okay.

And did he only get hit on the head?

Yeah, yeah. I think so, yeah. Okay. With Zion only admitting half-truths, investigators later ask him to voluntarily hand over his cell phone. While his mother encourages him to do so, Zion appears uncomfortable with the request.

They're gonna get it back to you as soon as you can. It's been a long day.

Everyone is asking.

It's been a long day. I don't have my goddamn phone. I'm trying to talk to people, tell my situation.

Yeah, no, I get it, man.

I get it.

And like I said, I'm not trying to, even though I am, I'm really not trying to. I mean, we do our best to not inconvenience victims in the case.

Reluctantly, Zion agrees to cooperate. What they'll later uncover on his cell phone will prove invaluable in uncovering the truth. For now, with Zion's statement on record and Daniel refusing to speak to investigators, they'll need to question the only other person who was there at the time of the incident to get a complete picture of what happened between the four teens. By the early afternoon, license plate readers and other tools successfully track down the

shooter, John Fuentes. He's taken into custody during a high risk traffic stop near a smoke shop in Los Lunas and taken to the New Mexico State Police Office in Albuquerque along with his grandmother who'd been traveling with him.

Before questioning John, investigators speak with his grandmother.

I never thought this would happen. It's sad. Very sad.

Do you need some water?

No.

Are you fine?

I spoke to my grandson.

How did he match up?

He's a good guy, good kid. He just turned 18. He graduated from Manzano High. He don't have no records of nothing. He got in a little trouble, but they put him on probation and he completed it.

Investigators learned that it was John's uncle and his uncle's girlfriend who ultimately picked him up from the campus, dropping him off at his grandmother's house. His grandmother explains that she then took John to Walmart to get bandages for his wounds.

I wanted to clean his wounds and that, and we can't run from the law, and before I did have plans, and he had already agreed.

Okay, so then-

So he wasn't gonna be out there very much longer because I knew we can't, you can't hide nobody, they can't hide because you all will catch us.

She admits that she's aware a shooting occurred on campus, that someone died, and that John was involved. She emphasizes she had plans to take him to the police station, but only after making a quick stop.

We went to the smoke shop now to get the cigarettes, that's where we were caught at. So I just told him and he agreed, he wanted me to take him to turn himself in. All I can tell you, because I go to Calvary a lot, and I believe in God, I pray a lot, the devil attack, he gonna get to me, so he attack my family.

They say that, that's what happened to John. He gonna get to me, Mico, so he attack my grandson. That's what it is that boy's gone, I feel bad for that boy's parents, you know, or everybody that got hurt because I'm hurting for John.

But while his grandmother places blame on the devil, John claims what happened is a result of something else entirely.

What brought you to UNM?

Usually I just go hang out at Daniel's dorm and he's like, let's take, what is it? Tabs, acid tabs. Like you wanted to take it with some cocaine and so I out more cocaine

so we could try it. Me and Daniel took like a thing of, what is it? Acid. And then I remember Daniel was just keep pushing me, take another line, take another line, take another line. And I remember to the point where I was, I couldn't even think.

I remember I was just, I just remember blacking out. And then I remember whenever I was on top of the roof, I just remember I had Zion's Glock 19 on me and I was just like out of it. I can't even, I didn't even know where the heck I was at. Damn, I kept calling my dad. I was like, I think I got laced or something.

I was like, I don't know, I'm on top of a roof, I'm at UNM, I was like, I think I just shot two people.

I'm like, I don't know, I'm losing my mind. And he was trying to call his uncle Steven and he was calling my son uncle instead of, instead of telling him dad, he didn't even know who he was calling. So he wasn't right in the mind. And all he says is that they were, they took, they had been drinking, they took acid,

that's all he says. And he remembers jumping out of a window. He don't remember, he blacked out. He don't know nothing else. So I don't know what happened from there. Maybe you all can get him to remember more, but he don't come out of the same story and all he does is cry, cry, cry.

Like he's ripped inside, man.

It's bad.

As John appears to struggle with his memory, he recalls one key detail that may soon resolve an unanswered question. I didn't even bring a gun, like, at all.

Like none of those guns were even, that 19X, that was Dan's, and then the 19 was Zion's. I remember I just came to just chill for the last days of NBA at UNM. I don't know if there was like fans on or not. God, it was on, bro.

John has now mentioned the presence of two firearms. And while one was recovered from the roof, a second gun hasn't been found.

So do you remember at what point, at what point did the guns get brought out? Like while you guys were hanging out?

As soon as we started hanging out.

Like Dan and Zion have just had their guns out?

Yeah.

Or how did that go?

They just had their guns out, yeah.

Is that like a regular thing? Like does that happen every time you guys hang out

in like a private area like that?

Pretty much.

This raises the possibility that Zion and Daniel may have collected the second gun when they went back to the dorm following the shooting. But based on John's next comments, that might not have been all that was taken.

Let me ask you this, man.

The acid and the cocaine, what are they gonna be in? Like, are they gonna be in containers?

Are they gonna be in baggies?

That shit is not of little baggie. Zion, but homie, I'm already, Teddy just picked up all kinds of coke from somebody. I don't even know who the f*** it was. But it was like,

a big ol' baggie. I don't know if it is. And then, the little acid.

I don't even know where the hell he got that from. After searching the dorm, investigators found suspected acid tablets, one to two baggies containing a white powdery substance, a line of powder along with a credit card and two rolled up $100 bills.

The large bag that John described was not located. According to police records, investigators believe this large bag was likely taken by Zion or Daniel when they returned to the room. Ring camera footage showed the teens arriving at Zion's mother's house at 1.55 a.m. Notably, neither are carrying the two bags. Since the teens were captured on camera leaving the campus at 12.19am, this means over an

hour had passed between the time they left and when they arrived at the house, which is less than a quarter of a mile away from the campus. It's unknown what Daniel or Zion did in the hour after they fled the campus, but it's worth noting that after a search warrant was later executed on Zion's vehicle, both bags were recovered and both were empty. After obtaining search warrants for phones belonging to Daniel, Michael, and Zion,

investigators uncovered stunning revelations that began to paint an alarming picture. Deleted texts on Zion's and Michael's phones revealed they had indeed been arranging illicit drug sales, with 14-year-old Michael coordinating the deals, Zion handling the deliveries, and the two splitting the profits.

According to court documents, roughly 12 hours before Michael's murder, Zion traded a firearm for 40 to 50 grams of cocaine. Video communications between Daniel and Zion showed them in the dorm manipulating two pistols, as well as large amounts of cash. In a video recovered from Michael's cell phone, someone can be seen holding the same stolen handgun that would later be used to take his life. Further deleted text revealed that Daniel told Zion not to speak with police.

Zion replied that he only told them certain things. All the while, 14-year-old Michael was left in the dorm room with a gunshot wound to the head. And there's no evidence Daniel or Zion called 911 for help.

Just a couple of minutes ago, after Michael's death was confirmed, Zion had texted me, he said, bro, I'm scared to go to the house and face all of you. What does that mean?

Nothing, I'm just scared to go to the house and face your mom, Erica.

Erica interprets the texts as Zion not wanting to face the family because he influenced Michael and ultimately brought him to the campus where he was killed. But for John, he still faces disbelief over the entire situation.

I remember my mom went to go like peep out the scene and then she tells me the whole news is there and that she looked on the news and one's injured and one's deceased. And that's when I just started losing my mind.

I was like,

I couldn't believe what I did.

While John's grandmother recalls hearing on the news that one person had died, the confirmation of the victim's age delivers a stunning shock.

So yes, there was a person that died. Not just any person, a 14 year old kid.

A 14 year old?

So there was a boy that died, got killed. And the reason I ask is because your grandson was there last night. And your grandson was present at that time during that whole incident.

Who else died, Ito?

There was just one person that died.

One person that died, any other wounds?

The other one was injured, yes. So it's important that we get more information from you and I don't know if you're holding back information but I'm not holding back your grandson was involved in a pretty serious incident last night this morning last night into the morning okay people died he left obviously what you're telling us is that he went home, he

started crying, said, Oh God, nobody in their right mind, I can tell you this for right now, nobody in their right mind is going to cry over acid and being high on acid. Where he's feeling the guilt is he knows what he did last night. Okay, and that's where we're at right now. So did he ever disclose to you that he killed anybody? No.

No, no.

No.

Okay.

As for John, he remains uncertain

that he was even the one who pulled the trigger. I just remember

someone of me holding his pistol, like looking at it off the acid,

like all just tripping out on the floor. Someone had me holding his pistol, like looking at it off the acid,

like all just tripping out on it. And then just, like just blew, I remember, I don't even remember what the happened. I remember it was just like a movie.

What led you to believe that you may have shot two people?

Because I was just full of blood and I remember the Glock. Before I was messing with that, I remember I had bullets and then I remember I took out the clip and it was empty. And I was like just bleeding and my ears were ringing. So I definitely knew something was up. I don't know.

I was just, my mind was running a million miles per second. While most students seemed to have slipped through the incident, police were able to locate a witness who heard the gunshots.

So I, obviously, like I know there was multiple gunshots, but it was like, so like the first one went off and it was like, bam, bam. And then I heard somebody laugh. I heard like a guy laugh and it was like a deep voice. Um, after that I heard like some muffling noise, like muffled noise, I mean.

And then after like a few seconds, I heard like the shots again, like bam, bam, bam. But that time it was like complete silence. And then I heard like some muffled noise, like guys speaking, two guys speaking.

But that's it.

But one question continues to puzzle investigators. If the four teens were simply hanging out and partying as John admits they'd done on more than one occasion, what happened this time that was different?

Do you remember like getting into like an argument

or a fight with dad or Zion or Zion's brother?

No?

I just remember us sitting there, they were watching a Gordon Ramsay, like how the cocaine is made from the cocoa leaves. They were watching something interesting, whatever.

And then that's

when they were like oh then I was like you you guys gotta take some more now here take some more. Come on Zon, tell me what's up brother, come on, come on. That's when they were I just blacked out I think we could have been arguing. I mean, that's why I was almost like, you could ask the, what is it? His little brother or something.

John's suggestion that they ask Zion's little brother is startling, revealing he has no idea the young boy is the one who was killed.

Do you know who's injured or who's deceased?

No, I don't. Well, I think-

Well, what would you guess? I'm injured or who's deceased? No, I don't. What would you guess? I'm pretty sure Daniel's deceased and Zion's injured.

I'm pretty sure.

What leads you to think that like them versus somebody else or why one's dead and the other one's injured?

Because his brother wasn't really in the way. His brother was just kind of out there. But Daniel, Zion, they're both, I mean, every time we hang out, they're right there. And I don't think I would have shot his little brother because his little brother was always out of the way.

He's not really, he kind of just like the side character.

Do you want us to tell you who was injured?

Yeah.

I mean, I'm asking you, do you want to know?

Yeah.

Okay. So the little brother, he's 14 and he's dead. What? And then Dan was injured, but not seriously. Zion was not.

What?

How much the **** like, I don't know, what the ****?

I'm sorry.

What the f***, bro? and the victim was found dead in the hospital. The victim was found dead in the hospital

and the victim's body was found in the hospital.

The victim's body was found in the hospital and the victim's body was found in the hospital. The victim's body was found in the hospital and the victim's body was found in the hospital. The victim's body was found in the hospital and the victim's body was found in the hospital.

The victim's body was found in the hospital 14-year-old Michael into firing additional shots at Zion and Daniel, who was injured. It remains unclear whether there was any argument between them. Following his interview, John was taken to the New Mexico State Police for the execution of a search warrant

before being transported to a detention center. 19-year-old Zion Mira was later arrested and charged with two counts of tampering with evidence, one count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and one count of possession of a controlled substance. He entered a plea of not guilty on October 27th, 2025.

19-year-old Daniel Archuleta was also arrested and later charged with tampering with evidence, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and two counts of possession of a controlled substance. John Fuentes, now 19 years old, faces eight felonies, including second-degree murder

for the death of 14-year-old Michael Lamont, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, three counts of tampering with evidence, criminal damage to property, and receiving stolen property in relation to the firearm.

He entered a plea of not guilty and a pre-trial conference has been set for July 7th, 2026. John Fuentes and Zion Mira are both being held without bond while awaiting trial. If you'd like to see select new videos early and help us keep uncovering case files that rarely come to light, you'll find extra footage and unseen details on our Patreon. rarely come to light, you'll find extra footage and unseen details on our Patreon. Channel memberships here on YouTube also include early access to select new videos.