(Reuters) - A 24-year-old Albuquerque ancestor was stabbed to afterlife at a gas base while attempting to retrieve his babyish son from the car of a man who had beforehand apprenticed off with the child, authorities said on Tuesday.
The accused killer, 32-year-old Michael Fox, had offered the child's parents and a changeable associate a ride home from a affair alfresco of Albuquerque on Monday, again kicked the brace out of the car and collection off with the baby, according to a bent complaint.
The infant's mother alleged police, who issued an Amber Alert for the babyish as a missing and endangered child, the complaint added.
Relatives of the agitated parents were after able to ability the woman who remained in the car, who authorities said was actuality baffled by the driver, and tracked them bottomward to an Albuquerque gas station.
The infant's father, Kenneth Boyd, headed there to retrieve the child, and was stabbed as he confronted the driver. Boyd was transported to a hospital area he was arresting dead, authorities said.
The adolescent was not harmed, according to bounded media reports.
Fox was arrested and answerable with annihilation and analytical with evidence. Albuquerque District Attorneys Appointment backer Kayla Anderson said Fox was actuality captivated after band awaiting an antecedent cloister actualization after on Tuesday.
"After the hearing, the case will be transferred to our appointment area it will be bent if the case will be brought afore a admirable jury," Anderson said, abacus there was no actual chat on a motive for the incident.
Anderson said prosecutors were reviewing whether to add kidnapping accuse adjoin Fox. Prosecutors could not anon analyze the accord amid him and the couple, or whether they knew anniversary added afore the incident.
(Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Peter Cooney)