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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico State Police caught a suspect this week who they say gunned down a man in Tularosa earlier this month.

NMSP spokesman Ray Wilson said officers arrested Charles Baca, 24, on Monday in the Oct. 7 killing of 37-year-old Ernest Sida.

Baca is charged with an open count of murder, attempted kidnapping and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.

Wilson said Baca shot Sida several times inside a dilapidated building and then tried to force a witness to give him a ride at gunpoint.

He said someone found called police after finding Sida dead inside the house at 307 St. Francis in Tularosa.

Wilson said through the investigation police learned the two men got into a fight earlier in the day at Sida’s house over Baca cursing around Sida’s children.

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He said Baca, Sida and another men were hanging out at 307 St. Francis Drive later that night when the two men got into an argument.

“(Baca) left the room and returned with a pistol and fired several shots at (Sida), striking and killing him,” Wilson said.

He said Baca then threatened the third man with the gun and ordered him to go with him but the man refused and Baca fled the area.

Police caught up with Baca on Monday and he was booked into the Otero County Detention Center.