Skip to main content
Friday, November 6, 2026Nov 6

This story is free to read.

The Latest: Family: Road rage killing should never happen

FBI special agent in charge Carol K.O.  Lee, left, and Albuquerque Police Department Chief Gorden Eden address the media Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015, following a road-rage incident where four-year-old Lilly Garcia was shot and killed in Albuquerque, N.M. Police detained a man on Wednesday in connection with the killing of the girl who was shot in the backseat of her father's truck after he picked up her and her brother from school. (AP Photo/Mary Hudetz)
FBI special agent in charge Carol K.O. Lee, left, and Albuquerque Police Department Chief Gorden Eden address the media Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015, following a road-rage incident where four-year-old Lilly Garcia was shot and killed in Albuquerque, N.M. Police detained a man on Wednesday in connection with the killing of the girl who was shot in the backseat of her father's truck after he picked up her and her brother from school. (AP Photo/Mary Hudetz) FBI special agent in charge Carol K.O. Lee, left, and Albuquerque Police Department Chief Gorden Eden address the media Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015, following a road-rage incident where four-year-old Lilly Garcia was shot and killed in Albuquerque, N.M. Police detained a man on Wednesday in connection with the killing of the girl who was shot in the backseat of her father's truck after he picked up her and her brother from school. (AP Photo/Mary Hudetz)

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – The latest on the road rage killing of a 4-year-old girl on a New Mexico freeway (all times local):

11:15 a.m.

The grandfather of a 4-year-old girl killed in a road rage shooting in New Mexico says something has to be done about gun violence.

Jose Garcia told The Associated Press outside the family’s home on Thursday that this type of tragedy should never happen. The grandfather, who spoke in Spanish, says Lilly Garcia’s death has left the family in deep mourning.

They live just south of the freeway where Tuesday’s shooting occurred. Lilly Garcia was killed after a driver opened fire on her father’s pickup truck.

Police arrested 32-year-old Tony Torrez on Wednesday and charged him with murder and other crimes.