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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A 38-year-old Albuquerque man is in jail after police say he shot his girlfriend outside her Northeast Heights apartment on Wednesday.

Kevin Smith, who also goes by the name Mauralon Harper, was arrested Friday on charges that include attempt to commit a capital or first-degree felony, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and shooting at or from a motor vehicle resulting in death or causing great bodily harm.

According to a criminal complaint filed in Metropolitan Court, police on Wednesday responded to a call of a shooting in the 11100 block of Cordova NE, where they found people inside an apartment tending to a woman with a gunshot wound to her abdomen. The woman told police “Mauralon shot me” before she was transported to University of New Mexico Hospital for surgery.

A resident of the apartment complex told police she had seen the female victim screaming at Harper, whom she identified as the woman’s boyfriend, saying “I’m tired of this. I want you out of my apartment,” according to the complaint. As the neighbor walked away to do laundry, she heard the victim scream and then “numerous gunshots,” the complaint says. The neighbor said she turned and saw Harper pointing a gun at the victim’s vehicle and the victim lying on the ground next to her car. Another witness reported seeing Harper running away with a gun in his waistband.

Police identified “13-14” gun shots on the victim’s vehicle, the complaint says.

Smith was booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center early Saturday morning. Jail records show he’s on a no-bond hold.

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