(NM) Woman shoots intruder dead 04-19-02
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Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:03:41 -0500
Woman Shoots Intruder Dead
By Jeremy Pawloski
Journal Staff Writer
A 42-year-old Santa Fe woman on Wednesday night shot and killed a man
who had intruded onto her Maclovia Street property and was stacking a
pile of bricks underneath her bedroom window when she found him, the
woman has told police.
The woman, Lisa Pelland, is not accused or charged with any crime, Santa
Fe Deputy Police Chief Beverly Lennen said Thursday. In a brief
interview at the front door of her Maclovia Street home, a visibly
distraught Pelland said, “It was completely horrible, my life was in
danger.”
Pelland declined to comment further.
Lennen said police were dispatched to Pelland’s Maclovia Street address
around
11 p.m. Wednesday on a report of shots fired.
When police arrived, Jay P. Medina, 42, of James Street was found shot
and killed outside Pelland’s home, Lennen said.
Pelland told police that before the shooting, she heard noises outside
her window, armed herself and went outside. When Pelland saw Medina
stacking bricks outside her window, she yelled out three times for him
to stay away, but he advanced toward her, she told police.
Pelland also said she told Medina she had a gun, Lennen added. Instead
of retreating, Medina continued to advance on Pelland and said something
that caused her to be in fear, Pelland told police. Lennen would not say
what Medina allegedly told Pelland. Pelland said she then shot Medina,
according to Lennen.
The case is still under investigation, and an autopsy on Medina is still
pending, Lennen said.
The 1st Judicial District Attorney’s Office or a grand jury likely will
make a determination on any possible criminal charges once the police
investigation is complete, Lennen said.
“It’s still very early,” she said. Medina has no prior criminal record,
Lennen said. There is nothing to indicate that Pelland knew or had any
kind of relationship with Medina, she added.
Medina’s estranged wife, Dena Ashley-Medina, filed a protective order
against him on April 15 in 1st Judicial District Court. Ashley-Medina
alleges in the protective order that Medina had pushed her into walls
and furniture.
Medina also allegedly threatened his estranged wife, and Ashley-Medina
claimed, “If I leave him he will burn down my house, truck, destroy
everything, then kill me.”
Ted Pe?a, a neighbor of Pelland’s, said Thursday outside his home that
he heard two gunshots Wednesday night before he drifted off to sleep.
Pe?a added that the neighborhood also has had peeping Toms over the
years. Priscilla Quintana, whose mother lives a couple of doors down
from Pelland, said there have been a couple of break-ins in the
neighborhood in the past month. “I don’t blame her for what she
(Pelland) did. Who knows, the guy could have been trying to get in her
bedroom,” Quintana said. “I wouldn’t want anyone looking in my window.”
In a second Santa Fe shooting Wednesday night, a 27-year-old man was
taken to St. Vincent Hospital at around 11:30 p.m. with a gunshot wound
to the chest, Lennen said.
Police learned that the gunshot victim, Gilbert Barela, was shot at the
Allsups at Camino Entrada and Airport Road. The Allsups is only a block
away from Santa Fe Police Department headquarters.
Barela was uncooperative with police and would say only that he owed
money to the person who shot him.
Lennen said Barela was in critical but stable condition at St. Vincent
Hospital on Thursday and was unable to talk to police.
Lennen said police are seeking two men who may have been at the Allsups
around the time of Barela’s shooting and were caught by the store’s
surveillance camera. Lennen said the men are not being called suspects,
but police would like to talk to them.
Copyright 2002 Albuquerque Journal
