Teen Pleads Guilty in Tragic Shooting of 5-Year-Old Girl in Albuquerque

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Content: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – One of the juveniles accused of shooting into a mobile home and killing a five-year-old girl last year pled guilty to murder on Friday.

Police said five-year-old Galilea Samaniego was asleep in her home when Yahir Carballo, along with three other teens and a 19-year-old girl, fired eight shots into the home. Samaniego was hit in the head and killed.

Police said they were targeting another teen who lived at the address.

A KRQE News 13 photographer was not allowed in to film the trial, but court records show that Carballo pled guilty to one count of first-degree murder.

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One of his accomplices, Alexander Barreaza, pled guilty to first-degree murder earlier this week.

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