New Mexico man charged after threatening children with gun
A New Mexico man has been charged with federal child abuse after allegedly threatening two children and an adult with a pistol before trying to force his way into a home while the victims barricaded the door with their bodies, according to prosecutors.
The incident happened on May 8 outside a home in Dulce, New Mexico, a community in the Jicarilla Apache Nation in the northern part of the state, according to court documents.
Prosecutors said Andrew Fredrick Gunhammer, 26, was confronting an adult and two minors outside the home when he pulled a pistol from his backpack and began loading it with a magazine.
The adult and children ran inside the home and used their bodies to block the door when Gunhammer tried to force his way inside, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Mexico. A fourth person inside the home told him to leave because police were being called.
Gunhammer fled to another home on the same street, where officers from the Jicarilla Apache Police Department later took him into custody.
Officers found a backpack in a bedroom and a pistol with one round in the chamber under a mattress. The backpack contained several rounds of different ammunition and drug paraphernalia.
Gunhammer, an enrolled member of the Jicarilla Apache Nation, is charged with child abuse and will remain in federal custody pending trial. A trial date has not been scheduled. If convicted, he faces up to three years in prison.
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