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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When federal authorities searched the Southwest Albuquerque home where they say 17-year-old Xavier Zamora was hiding after he was charged with shooting and killing a letter carrier last week, they found four guns, THC products and several cellphones, according to a search warrant inventory filed in the U.S. District Court of New Mexico.

They had not found the gun believed to have been used to shoot 47-year-old Jose Hernandez, according to the search warrant affidavit. It is unclear if it has been found since.

On April 24 – following two days of searching – Zamora was arrested at the house in the 500 block of Whisper Point SW, near Sunset Gardens and Unser. He has been charged in federal court but the case has been sealed because he is a juvenile.

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A postal inspector with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service zeroed in on the home on Whisper Point after requesting subscriber information for Zamora’s Instagram account. He found the account had been accessed twice from that address, according to the affidavit.

The inspector also found security camera video showing Zamora running through a trailer park behind his home shortly after the shooting. At the time the Albuquerque Police Department SWAT team had surrounded Zamora’s house in an effort to arrest him.

After Zamora was arrested, he told the postal inspector and an APD detective he had wrapped the gun in a white T-shirt and put it in his backpack.

“He stated he disposed of the weapon and backpack containing the weapon in the trailer park behind his home which was proved to be false based on the video in paragraph 11 where X.Z. is seen running with the backpack still on,” the postal inspector wrote in the affidavit. “At this time, Postal Inspectors do not know where the weapon is currently located.”

After Zamora was arrested the home was secured, displacing three adults and five children while the search warrant was executed. The relationship between Zamora and the people who live in the house is unclear.

As APD detectives were conducting surveillance, they talked with a woman who was pulling out of the driveway. She confirmed Zamora was in the home.

A spokeswoman from the U.S. Attorney’s Office did not respond to emailed questions about whether that woman or anyone else will face charges in the case.