Car wash attendant charged with open count of murder in Wednesday shooting death
Police charged a car wash attendant with an open count of murder after an early-morning shooting that left a man dead.
It happened on the 500 block of North Valley at Hadley in North-Central Las Cruces.
Police said Gregory Cleto Fernandez, 39, drove a pick up to the car wash. He was parked in one of the bays when he allegedly got into a fight with the attendant, 57-year-old Leo Molina.
Molina pulled out a gun and shot Fernandez in the upper torso, according to police.
Fernandez died at a nearby hospital. Molina was also injured during the fight and required medical treatment at a hospital. Police said he will be jailed when he is released.
