The Albuquerque Metro Crime Stoppers is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the man who stabbed a UNM student on campus Feb. 15.
Crime Stoppers made the on-campus attack its “Crime of the Week,” which ran on the Crime Stoppers Web site from April 8 until today. UNMPD spokesman Robert Haarhues said the department enlisted the help of Crime Stoppers after its stream of tipsters began to run dry.
“We haven’t stopped working on it. It’s just things have slowed down since our leads started to fizzle out a little bit,” he said. “When it first happened, we were inundated with people calling in.”
Haarhues said that since Feb. 15, UNMPD detectives have tracked down and been disappointed by more than 20 leads.
He said UNMPD employs two full-time detectives and two part-time detectives. Both full-time detectives were designated to work on the Feb. 15 stabbing case.
“This is our highest priority,” he said.
Haarhues said UNMPD has also reached out to the Albuquerque Police Department to use some of the department’s background databases, but he wouldn’t specify which ones.
This is uncharted territory for UNMPD, Haarhues said. Officers can’t remember the last time such a violent attack happened on campus, he said.
“The campus is pretty safe. We didn’t have a whole lot of craziness going on,” he said. “Most people come here to get an education; unfortunately, there are just some bad apples out there that are here to cause harm to others.”
At about 7:55 p.m. on Feb. 15, a 41-year-old student and employee was stabbed in the neck near the Anthropology Building. The assailant stole the woman’s cell phone, and the woman might have bled to death if not for the help of her fellow students.
*Crime Stoppers’ $1,000 reward for information leading to Feb. 15 stabber arrest:
Call 843-STOP or 843-7867*
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