Friend finds man shot ‘execution-style’ in 2020, NM officials say. Now 2 convicted

Two men have been convicted in connection with the “execution-style” killing of a 33-year-old man during a robbery in 2020, New Mexico officials said.

In December 2020, Antonio Jaramillo’s friend found him tied up and shot inside a home, according to a news release by the Albuquerque Police Department.

Jaramillo was bound at the wrists and ankles in a bedroom, with a single “execution-style” gunshot wound, according to an Oct. 27 Facebook post by the Bernalillo County District Attorney’s Office.

Investigators learned Charles Robinson, 46, had planned a robbery, targeting Jaramillo, and Walter Eddings, 42, helped in the crime, officials said.

In 2024, there was a mistrial in the case, KOB 4 reported.

“The jurors, I don’t think they were fully committed, to be honest. You could see some of them falling asleep and just not really paying attention. And I think that has a lot to do with all of the objections that happened during the trial,” Sally Sanchez, Jaramillo’s mother, told KOB 4.

On Oct. 27, Robinson was found guilty on charges of first-degree murder, armed robbery, conspiracy to commit armed robbery, aggravated burglary and conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary, prosecutors said.

Eddings was found guilty on charges of first-degree murder, kidnapping, armed robbery, conspiracy to commit armed robbery, aggravated burglary, conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary and tampering with evidence, prosecutors said.

“He didn’t deserve what they did to him. Nobody deserves that,” Sanchez told KOB 4. “I’m happy, I’m glad, I’m glad that they’re gonna rot there in prison.”

The pair’s sentencing date has yet to be scheduled, but they each face more than life in prison, officials said.