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SANTA FE — The man wanted in the killing of a Nambé woman last month admitted he shot her after he was tracked down in Las Cruces last week, according to a search warrant affidavit filed in court Monday.

Robert Mondrian-Powell, 57 — also known as Robert Boykin — was spotted by State Police at a Las Cruces Albertson’s Friday and he later admitted to detectives that he shot and killed 67-year-old Elvira Segura at her Nambé home with a hand gun after a fight with her about Sept. 4.

He was charged with an open count of murder and was booked into the Doña Ana County jail.

Mondrian-Powell, who police believe is homeless, was always considered a person of interest after police found Segura’s body Sept. 27.

Segura’s neighbors saaid Mondrain-Powell, who is also known as Robert Boykin, held a yard sale at the Nambé house between Sept. 11 and Sept. 16, leaving officers to believe that Mondrian-Powell had been living there with Segura’s body still inside.

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State Police found Segura’s 2010 Kia abandoned in Las Cruces on Sept. 24, and witnesses said they saw an older male wearing a hat walking away from the car.

Officers subsequently did a welfare check at Segura’s home and found her dead in a bathroom with blood splatter nearby as well as a dead dog in a bedroom. An autopsy found that Segura had been dead for weeks.

Neighbors reported hearing gunshots between 10 p.m. and midnight about three weeks before Segura’s body was found.

Mondrian-Powell has spent time in the Santa Fe County jail for DWI and shoplifting, according to jail records.