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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A fight over broken windows in southeast Albuquerque last Friday ended with one man dead from a gunshot wound and another on the run, according to court documents.

On Saturday, police filed an arrest warrant for Darrius Valles, 21, charging him with an open count of murder for the fatal shooting of Jerry Jennings, 43. Jennings had been shot in the head and was taken to the University of New Mexico Hospital, where he died.

Valles’ girlfriend told police that nine days before the shooting, Valles had fought with a friend and hid in Jennings’ apartment on the 1300 block of Dickerson SE. The friend had thrown several rocks through Jennings’ apartment, breaking a couple of windows, according to an arrest warrant affidavit filed in Metropolitan Court.

Friday afternoon, Valles’ girlfriend told police Jennings asked Valles to fix the windows, sparking a fight.

She said she heard the men fighting outside her apartment and heard a “pop” sound. Shortly afterward, Valles returned to her apartment.

“She stated he told her he had to shoot Jerry ‘out of self defense,'” the complaint says. “She stated he told her Jerry was punching him, and he had to shoot him.”