Elizabeth Ortiz-Chavez is a killer from New Mexico who was convicted of the murder of Josue Ruiz
According to court documents Elizabeth Ortiz-Chavez sixteen year old daughter was dating sixteen year old Josue Ruiz when the teen couple found out they were pregnant. The daughter would allegedly tell her family that Ruiz had also hit her
Elizabeth Ortiz-Chavez would set up a fight between Josue Ruiz and Elizabeth son Angelo Baldonado. However when the two teens would meet Elizabeth would fatally shoot Josue
When police quickly figured out what was going on Elizabeth Ortiz-Chavez would blame the murder on her own son Angelo Baldonado. However her story would soon change when one of her other sons would tell someone on Facebook what really happened.
Angelo Baldonado would be convicted of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and assault with intent to commit a violent felony and would be sentenced to a juvenile facility until he is 21
Elizabeth Ortiz-Chavez would plead guilty to second degree murder and would be sentenced to eighteen years in prison
Elizabeth Ortiz-Chavez Case
A judge this week sentenced a Belen woman to 18 years in prison in the 2022 shooting death of her daughter’s ex-boyfriend.
Elizabeth Ortiz-Chavez, 49, pleaded guilty in January to second-degree murder in the March 2022 killing of 16-year-old Josue Ruiz in a Downtown alley near Sixth and Central SW. She was sentenced on Thursday by 2nd Judicial District Judge Lucy Solimon.
Ortiz-Chavez’s son was arrested in 2022 in connection with Ruiz’s shooting death. Ortiz-Chavez was arrested in June 2023 when police alleged that she had arranged a meeting between Ruiz and her son “knowing what would happen,” court records show.
Ortiz-Chavez’s son, Angelo Baldonado, pleaded guilty in 2023 to conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and assault with intent to commit a violent felony in Ruiz’s killing. Solimon sentenced Baldonado, 19, to remain in the Bernalillo County Youth Diagnostic and Development Center until age 21.
Albuquerque police found Ruiz fatally shot in an alley behind Lindy’s Diner on March 4, 2022.
The dispute began because Baldonado’s teenage sister was pregnant and had told her family that Ruiz had hit her, according to a criminal complaint filed in Metropolitan Court.
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Elizabeth Ortiz-Chavez, 49, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the March 2022 shooting death of 16-year-old Josue Ruiz behind Lindy’s Diner in downtown Albuquerque. Initially, Ortiz-Chavez’s son Angelo Baldonado, then 16, was charged as an adult with murder.
Ortiz-Chavez allegedly shot the victim after setting up a fight between Ruiz and her son and driving to the alleyway near Fifth Street and Central Avenue. Prior to the shooting, Angelo Baldonado’s pregnant sister, whom Ruiz was dating allegedly told family that Ruiz had hit her.
Jail calls between Baldonado and his mother — included in a probable cause arrest affidavit obtained by Law&Crime — show she was on the verge of coming forward with the truth, but Baldonado insisted that she not for the sake of the family. Prosecutors say she wanted to blame her son because he was a minor and would receive a lesser sentence.
But then her other son, Baldonado’s brother, blew the case open in March 2023. In a conversation on Facebook with a woman, he said what really happened.
“She advised me that during their conversations (Baldonado’s brother) did advise her that Angelo and his mother, Elizabeth Ortiz-Chavez, had gone to fight Josue and that Josue tried to pull a gun on them and that he got shot before he could take out his gun, but that detectives had charged his brother with the murder,” said the investigating detective’s complaint. “Gilbert also disclosed that the ‘crazy part about it’ was that his brother is not ‘telling’ on his mom.”
The brother expressed frustration that their mother would allow him to take the fall
“I have an older brother locked up because of her,” he told the woman. “… I hate her for what she did. He deserves to be home with his daughter. She’ll never know him at all because she’s a selfish b—–.”
He added: “She’s the worst of the worst.”
The woman came forward to police and relayed the conversation. Cops arrested Ortiz-Chavez for murder. Baldonado did not come off unscathed: Since he participated in and organized the deadly fight, he was sentenced to four years in prison for assault and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder.
Ortiz-Chavez faces up to 18 years behind bars when she’s sentenced.
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