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Albuquerque police say a well-known former attorney was fatally shot at a home in the North Valley.
Gilbert Gallegos, an Albuquerque Police Department spokesman, said 45-year-old Colin Hunter died from his injuries on Tuesday.Police responded after 5 a.m. to a shooting in the 4600 block of Fifth NW, near Griegos. Gallegos said Hunter was shot by an “unknown offender” and the case is being investigated.
As an attorney, Hunter filed civil rights lawsuits, represented Cowboys for Trump and sued the City of Albuquerque over a controversial DWI vehicle seizure program.
In the Cowboys for Trump case Attorney Colin Hunter rather than filing an amended complaint with the district court, Griffin appealed the case to the circuit court. In that appeal, Griffin’s attorney, Colin L. Hunter, argued Oliver used her “enforcement power to trample the First Amendment right to free speech and association of a high-profile ideological opponent” and that the “(mis)use of an unconstitutional law to silence ideological opponents and hinder their ability to associate with one another to amplify their message is contrary to the First Amendments right to free speech and association.”
Griffin’s attorney Collin Hunter at the time, asked the appeals court to reverse the lower court ruling and dismiss the case.
Hunter as an attorney also fought cases such as a case against a Breaking Bad actor who was accused of fraudulently declaring himself a candidate.
Patricia Paiz, who lost the general election for Bernalillo county commission in district 2, filed a complaint in district court claiming her opponent, Steven Michael Quezada, should have never been a candidate.
Paiz’s lawyers, A. Blair Dunn and Colin Hunter, filed the complaint.
Hunter also served as the vice chairman of the Bernalillo County GOP more than a decade ago.
In 2016, Hunter pleaded guilty to DWI after police found him driving drunk in a car littered with empty Tecate beer cans. Hunter kept representing people in a variety of lawsuits and civil cases until 2021.In 2022 his law license was suspended after he failed to get it renewed, according to court records.
In an update Thursday concerning the death of Hunter, Gallegos also said the Feb. 8 deaths of David Ramirez and Patrick Gallegos are now being investigated as justified homicides and had “been sent to the District Attorney’s Office for review.”
Officers found Ramirez dead after responding to reports of a body outside the Cinnamon Tree apartment complex on Central.
Then, hours later, police found Gallegos dead inside a home near Menaul and Second after responding to reports of a body inside.
Gilbert Gallegos, the Albuquerque police spokesman, did not elaborate on why police believe the deaths of the two men were justified homicides and no further details of the Colin Hunter murder case are available at this time.
Hunters, former client Couy Griffin, was arrested in Otero County Saturday May 20th on a warrant, and is remanded to the Otero County Detention Center on other unrelated charges. We attempted to reach out to Mr. Griffin for comment on the death of his former attorney, however, due to his being detained he is unavailable for comment.
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