A man allegedly shot two people dead inside a New Mexico home after receiving an “encrypted message” telling him he “needed to kill” inside a cockroach, according to authorities and reports.
Police responded to a home in southwest Albuquerque just before 10:30 p.m. Friday and discovered two unidentified men dead with gunshot wounds inside the house, the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
Alexis Hernandez, 25, was arrested at the home and booked Saturday morning on two open counts of murder in connection to the double homicide, the Albuquerque Journal reported.
Three additional adults and two young children were also inside the home, but were unharmed, police said.
When deputies arrived at the house, Hernandez answered the door armed with a gun and had a “Marine Corps saber” affixed to his hip, according to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by the outlet.
The unhinged man allegedly confessed to deputies that there were two men dead inside the home and described himself as a member of the Marines, the filing said.
After he was detained, Hernandez blurted to police that one of the dead men, whom he believed was a friend, had been stalking him and placing cameras in light fixtures, the warrant claimed.
He then bizarrely claimed that he had received an “encrypted message in a cockroach” that told him he “needed to kill” one of the men, the document stated.
He was also “hearing creepy voices coming from the vents” and “had been getting signs that he had to end [one of the victims] before he ended him,” the document said, according to the outlet.
Hernandez had purchased a Glock handgun for “protection,” and allegedly unleashed the assault on Friday after the two men allegedly took him to the back room of the home, NBC News reported.
He told cops he was “afraid for his life at this point,” and shot one of the men, who was the property owner, in the head before shooting the other man in the kitchen, the warrant said, according to the outlet.
He allegedly shot both men before getting more ammunition from his vehicle, then returned to shoot them again, the publication reported.
Hernandez also told police that the two young children saw him shoot the men but maintained he was not going to “take the kids,” or do anything to them, the outlet reported.
The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for further comment.
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