The Associated Press
ALAMOGORDO — A New Mexico man is facing charges after Alamogordo police say he fatally shot another man who was beating his girlfriend.
Albert Witehead, 21, was charged Monday with an open count of murder in the death of Eric Gillock, 36, of Hurst, Texas, the Alamogordo Daily News reports.
Authorities say Whitehead saw Gillock beating his girlfriend outside an Alamogordo home late Sunday, grabbed a .22 rifle and ordered Gillock to stop hurting the woman.