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New Mexico hosts No. 19 San Diego State after LeDee's 31-point outing

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January 13, 2024

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New Mexico hosts No. 19 San Diego State after LeDee's 31-point outing

San Diego State Aztecs (14-2, 3-0 MWC) at New Mexico Lobos (13-3, 1-2 MWC)

Albuquerque, New Mexico; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST

FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Lobos -3.5; over/under is 150.5

BOTTOM LINE: No. 19 San Diego State faces the New Mexico Lobos after Jaedon LeDee scored 31 points in San Diego State’s 81-78 victory over the San Jose State Spartans.

The Lobos have gone 8-0 at home. New Mexico averages 10.4 turnovers per game and is 13-2 when it has fewer turnovers than its opponents.

The Aztecs have gone 3-0 against MWC opponents. San Diego State is second in the MWC with 38.1 rebounds per game led by LeDee averaging 8.8.

New Mexico’s average of 6.3 made 3-pointers per game is 1.0 fewer made shot on average than the 7.3 per game San Diego State gives up. San Diego State has shot at a 45.1% clip from the field this season, 4.0 percentage points higher than the 41.1% shooting opponents of New Mexico have averaged.

The matchup Saturday is the first meeting this season between the two teams in conference play.

TOP PERFORMERS: Donovan Dent is scoring 15.7 points per game and averaging 2.8 rebounds for the Lobos. Jaelen House is averaging 15.4 points and 3.2 rebounds over the last 10 games for New Mexico.

Lamont Butler is averaging 8.4 points and 3.3 assists for the Aztecs. LeDee is averaging 17.7 points and 7.2 rebounds over the past 10 games for San Diego State.

LAST 10 GAMES: Lobos: 8-2, averaging 81.3 points, 38.6 rebounds, 16.0 assists, 11.6 steals and 3.9 blocks per game while shooting 46.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 67.4 points per game.

Aztecs: 9-1, averaging 74.6 points, 38.1 rebounds, 11.9 assists, 6.5 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 45.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 63.1 points.

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.

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Man charged in double homicide told New Mexico deputies a cockroach told him to kill

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November 9, 2025

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Man charged in double homicide told New Mexico deputies a cockroach told him to kill

A man is facing murder charges after allegedly admitting to deputies that he fatally shot two people inside a New Mexico home after receiving “an encrypted message in a cockroach” that he “needed to kill,” authorities say.

Alexis Hernandez, 25, was arrested and charged with two open counts of murder in connection with a Friday incident inside a southwest Albuquerque home, according to the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office.

Hernandez was booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center on Saturday morning, and it is not immediately clear if he has retained a lawyer.

Authorities have not identified the men killed in the incident or the two young children who were also found inside the house at the time.

According to the arrest warrant affidavit filed at the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court, deputies responded to reports of gunfire in southwest Albuquerque just before 10:30 p.m. When deputies arrived, they were met at the front door by Hernandez, who “had a firearm on his waistband and a Marine Corps Sabre on his hip,” the arrest warrant said.

The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office has arrested 27-year-old Alexis Najera Hernandez after deputies say he confessed to shooting and killing two men inside a home in Albuquerque, N.M.Crime Stoppers of New Mexico

Hernandez, who was immediately detained, told deputies he was in the Marines and “had to do what he had to do,” the warrant states. He then allegedly stated there were two dead bodies inside the residence.

Once inside the house, the warrant states, deputies found one dead man “with possible gunshot wounds” in the front of the house and a second man with apparent stab wounds in an attached apartment.

The two children who were found inside were safely removed from the residence, the arrest warrant states.

In an interview with deputies after he was taken into custody, Hernandez said that he knew the two slain men, one of whom was the owner of the property, according to the warrant. He then allegedly said he had believed the property owner was a friend who had been stalking him during the days leading up to the incident.

The warrant states Hernandez alleged the friend had placed cameras in the lights. Hernandez also told deputies that he was allegedly “hearing creepy voices coming from the vents” and “had been getting signs” that he had to end the property owner before he ended him.

Hernandez later allegedly told deputies that he also had received “an encrypted message in a cockroach” that he “needed to kill” the property owner, the warrant says. He added that the property owner allegedly did not like cockroaches.

The warrant states that Hernandez had previously purchased a Glock handgun, which he said he had for “protection.” Hernandez told deputies that on Friday the two men allegedly took him to the back room of the home and that he “was afraid for his life at this point.”

He said he shot the property owner in the head and the other in the kitchen, the warrant says. At one point, Hernandez allegedly told deputies, he had gone to his Honda Pilot to reload his gun before going back to each victim and shooting him again.

The sheriff’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the details of the second man’s cause of death.

The warrant states Hernandez admitted that he did not know what to do after the attack, so he “stayed on scene and walked around.” He allegedly added that he knew about the two children at the house and that they saw him shoot the two men.

He added that “he was not going to take the kids or do anything to them,” the warrant says.

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