Murder suspect returns to US, NM

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - After more than six years on the run, Noe Torres is back in New Mexico to face murder charges following his capture in Mexico.

He is accused of shooting into 10-year-old Carlos Perez’s bedroom killing him.

Torres then vanished but taunted police while on the run.

Torres landed at the Sunport late Tuesday afternoon escorted by us marshals.

After a brief stop at the federal courthouse, Torres was brought here to headquarters where he is now being questioned by police.

Torres is accused of being part of a gang that shot into a Clovis home in September 2005.

They were aiming for Ruben Perez but hit and killed his 10-year-old brother Carlos instead.

The boy was sleeping at the time.

Since then three other men have been convicted of murder for their roles in the slaying but Torres has been on the run, taunting investigators, calling America’s Most Wanted, promising to turn himself in and never following through.

In January he sent a letter to Governor Martinez asking for her help and claiming the charges against him were bogus.

After talking to the governor of Chihuahua, Torres was arrested by Mexican police days later.

Torres says he is innocent.

He will be arraigned Wednesday morning in Clovis before he's taken to a state prison to await trial.

One of the other men convicted of killing Carlos Perez, Edward Salas, is on the run.

He escaped from the curry county jail in 2008. Sources tell News 13 that Salas is part of a violent drug gang that may be protecting him.