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  • By Nico RoeslerThe New Mexican

    Thememories of VictorianoMoises Byrne-Gonzales—and there aremany—are enough tomake his

    family laugh.“I can’t believe it’s been almost

    two years without him.We still feelhis presence,” said Barbara Byrne,

    Byrne-Gonzales’mother, while gaz-ing at his son, Zaid-ynn— a 15-month-old smile machine.More than a year

    and a half afterByrne-Gonzales,21, was stabbed todeath, and nearly amonth after the manaccused of killinghim was acquitted

    of first- and second-degree murder,his family finds some comfort inmemories. But they didn’t get thejustice they sought against AdrianGonzales, they said, and that’s whathurts the most.“Moises was trying to protect a

    woman. He died for a reason, with apurpose,” Byrne said. “Wewant vali-dation that we, everyone, will be pro-tected and that our lives are valuable.”OnThursday, Byrne and several

    other familymembersmetwith prose-cutors at theDistrict Attorney’s Officeto discuss strategies formoving for-wardwith the case against Gonzales.Gonzales, no relation to Byrne-

    Gonzales, was accused of stabbingByrne-Gonzales in the throat afterhe and a friend, Santiago Cordova,tried breaking up a fight betweenGonzales and his girlfriend at theButterfly Springs Mobile Home Parkin Pojoaque on Dec. 2, 2011. On thewitness stand, Gonzales claimed hestabbed both Byrne-Gonzales andCordova in self-defense, and thatByrne-Gonzales had lured him intoa fight. Cordova was stabbed in theback.

    By Michael Melia and Ted ShaffreyThe Associated Press

    NEWTOWN, Conn. —When AdamLanza walked out of his house for the lasttime, he left behind firearms and knivesand more than1,600 roundsof ammunition— taking onlyfour guns. Theywould suffice.He loaded the

    weapons intohis car, drove toSandyHook Ele-mentary School,blasted his wayinto the buildingandwithin fiveminutes fired off154 shots witha Bushmaster.223-caliberrifle. Havingslaughtered 20first-graders andsix educators,he killed himselfwith a shot fromaGlock hand-gun. He still hadmore than 100 rifle bullets at hand.Warrants released Thursday provide

    the most insight to date into the world ofthe 20-year-old gunman, a recluse whoplayed violent video games in a housepacked with weaponry that was all tooreal. The inventory of items found in thespacious, colonial-style home includedbooks on autism, a vast array of weaponparaphernalia and images of whatappears to be a dead person covered withplastic and blood.The weapons used in the shooting had

    Four sections, 24 pagesPasatiempo, 56 pages164th year, No. 88Publication No. 596-440Editor: Rob Dean, 986-3033, [email protected] Main office: 983-3303 Late paper: 986-3010

    Calendar A-2 Classifieds D-2 Comics B-6 Lotteries A-2 Opinion A-5 Police notes C-2 Sports B-1 Time Out B-5 Generation Next D-1Index

    By Tom SharpeThe New Mexican

    ADistrict Court judge urged a familyThursday to try to heal their rift over aman’s exhumation by participating ina restorative justice process — but thethree close relatives of a couple whomoved their son’s grave said they wouldrather live under a court order to avoidthe couple for a decade.“I don’t want their friendship,” the

    couple’s granddaughter told the judge. “Idon’t want to be part of their family.”GeorgeM. and Teresita Bachicha

    of Cañada de los Alamos had soughta domestic-violence retraining orderagainst Teresita’s mother, Rose A. Moya;their daughter, Georgia Bachicha, and

    Georgia’s daughter, Rachel Serna, andcontinue to seek a civil restraining orderagainst Teresita Bachicha’s sister, Fran-cesquita Moya Flores, and Flores’ daugh-ter, Diane Velarde.The Bachichas say their relatives

    are harassing them because they hadtheir son’s body moved from a churchgraveyard a few feet from their housein Cañada de los Alamos to the RosarioCemetery in Santa Fe earlier this year.Georgie A. Bachicha diedMarch 7, 2011,from an overdose of alcohol and pain-killers.According to the Bachichas’ hand-

    written complaint, the relatives whoopposed the exhumation have repeat-

    The New Mexican

    Twomen arrested in separateincidents this week were chargedwith their fourth and fifth counts ofDWI— as well as charges of childabuse, as both were driving with

    small children as passengers.Santa Fe County sheriff’s deputies

    arrested AnthonyMontoya, 30, ofSanta Fe onWednesday evening ona charge of DWI, his fifth accordingto jail records, and child abuse whiledriving with his 4-year-old daughter

    in the back of his 2002 Dodge sedanon Placita Road, accordingto Capt. AdanMendoza of theSanta Fe County Sheriff’s Office.Mendoza said Montoya’s breathalcohol content taken at the scenewas 0.23 — almost three times thelegal limit for driving.At about 6 p.m. Tuesday, Santa

    Fe police arrested Ricardo Jimenez-

    The New Mexican’s Weekly Magazine of Arts, Entertainment & Culture March 29, 2013

    A look at Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s Sam Chittenden Inside

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    Child passengers boost DWI charges

    RicardoJimenez-Arana

    AnthonyMontoya

    Two men arrested in separate incidents havemultiple convictions of driving while intoxicated

    vIolenCe Bythe numBers

    1,600Number of rounds ofammunition found inAdam Lanza’s home.

    154Number of shotsfired within the firstfive minutes at theschool.

    100Number of rifle bul-lets left after Lanzakilled 20 children, sixadults and himself.

    SANDY HOOK MASSACRE

    Arsenalfound atshooter’shomeSearch warrants unveilammunition, swords andinsight into gunman’s world

    ‘We still feel his presence’

    todayPartly sunny.High 69, low 38.PAge C-4

    obituariesAlina Bourger, 21, Las Cruces, March 27John E. DeVito, 63, Truchas, March 4Guadalupe N. Romero, 90, Pojoaque,March 26Melvin Clayton ‘Mel’ Root, 79,Las Vegas, N.M., March 26J.W. Sellers, Santa Fe, March 27George M. Stone, 86, Santa Fe,March 26Erik Sverre, 49, Santa Fe, March 19

    PAge C-2

    Teens keep the faithYouth groups strive tobetter themselves andtheir community throughtheir religion.generAtIon neXt, D-1

    MoisesByrne-Gonzales

    Family of slain Santa Fe man continues to seek justice for abuse victims

    News ‘on thego’ reflectsmobile habitsBy Craig TimbergThe Washington Post

    Many this week celebrated the lat-est tech wunderkind, a British teenagerwhomade a fortune selling an app thatboils down news reports, no matter howimportant or complex, into a pithy400 characters. But for some of thosewho prefer heartier servings of news, thedevelopment carried at least a whiff ofthe apocalypse.For perspective: On Summly, the app

    that Yahoo! bought from 17-year-old NickD’Aloisio for $30 million, this articlewould already be done, having endedmidway through the word “D’Aloisio.”His fortune-making insight was that

    people on the go— in line for coffee orkilling time between innings of a baseballgame—may want no more informationthan can fit on the screen of a typicalsmartphone. This service is made pos-

    Please see DWI, Page A-4

    Please see ArsenAl, Page A-4

    Please see moBIle, Page A-4

    Clockwise, from left: Shaila Roybal, the fiancée of Victoriano Moises Byrne-Gonzales, who died aftera stabbing in a Pojoaque mobile home park; Roybal’s sister, Patricia Roybal; Byrne Gonzales’ mother,Barbara Byrne; his sister, Amelia; and his 15-month-old son, Zaidynn, who was born just days after hisdeath, are shown at the state Capitol on Thursday. CLYDE MUELLER/THE NEW MEXICANPlease see JustICe, Page A-4

    Words won’t heal rift overexhumation, family says

    Please see rIFt, Page A-4

    InsIDeu Obama urges nation to remember vic-tims by tightening gun laws. PAge A-3


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