{ "id": "2024-06-26-university-of-new-mexico-johnson-field-stabbing-robbery", "slug": "university-of-new-mexico-johnson-field-stabbing-robbery-2024-06-26", "institution": { "name": "University of New Mexico", "shortName": "UNM", "state": "NM", "type": "public-r1", "alertSystemName": "LoboAlerts", "enrollment": 22300 }, "incident": { "date": "2024-06-26", "type": "robbery", "cleryCategory": "timely-warning", "resolution": "confirmed-threat", "headline": "2:27 AM at Johnson Field: UNM's Lobo Alert for a Knife Robbery and a Suspect Headed Off Campus With a Green Backpack", "summary": "Early on Wednesday, June 26, 2024, a person was [stabbed in the arm and robbed at Johnson Field](https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/police-search-for-suspect-in-stabbing-robbery-on-unm-campus/) on the University of New Mexico's Albuquerque campus. UNM Police issued a [Lobo Alert shortly before 2:00 AM MDT](https://news.unm.edu/categories/advisories/lobo-alert-6-26-2024) describing the armed robbery and a suspect who fled southbound off campus with the victim's green backpack; police later offered up to a $1,000 reward for information.", "outcome": "The victim was stabbed on the left tricep with a 2-3 inch knife and robbed of a green backpack; the suspect fled south off campus and remained at large after the alert, with UNM Police and Albuquerque Metro Crime Stoppers soliciting tips and offering up to a $1,000 reward.", "casualties": { "killed": 0, "injured": 1 } }, "alerts": [ { "sequence": 1, "type": "initial", "timestampApprox": "Shortly before 2:00 AM MDT on Wednesday, June 26, 2024", "channel": "sms", "verbatimText": "Lobo Alert: Incident at Johnson Field. A victim was stabbed in the arm and robbed by a Native American male, 30-45 years old, with no shirt, wearing a black baseball cap, black pants, and white tennis shoes. The offender went southbound off campus with the victim's green backpack. If you have any information regarding this incident or notice any suspicious behavior, please contact the UNM Police Department (UNMPD) at 505-277-2241. Reports can also be made in person 24/7 at UNMPD, located on Main Campus at the west end of Hokona Hall (2500 Campus Blvd NE). Albuquerque Metro Crime Stoppers pays up to $1,000 for anonymous tips that lead to an arrest. To make an anonymous tip, call the tip line at 505-843-STOP (505-843-7867), download the Crime Stoppers app, or visit AMCS online (www.crimestoppersnm.com).", "isVerbatimConfirmed": true, "sourceUrl": "https://news.unm.edu/categories/advisories/lobo-alert-6-26-2024", "sourceDescription": "UNM UCAM Newsroom — official Lobo Alert archive page for 6.26.2024", "annotations": [ "KOB 4 reported UNM sent the LoboAlert 'just before 2 a.m. Wednesday'; the UCAM advisory references the incident as occurring at 2:27 a.m., so the precise alert minute is approximated here and given only as timestampApprox", "Classified as a timely warning for an aggravated robbery, with a full suspect description and direction of flight (southbound, off campus) because the offender was at large when the alert was issued", "Unusually, the alert names the specific stolen item — a green backpack — which doubles as an identifier the community could use to spot the suspect", "The Crime Stoppers footer with the up-to-$1,000 reward and the 505-843-STOP tip line is appended to UNM timely warnings where the suspect remains unidentified and at large" ], "characterCount": 812 } ], "context": "Johnson Field is a recreation and intramural athletic field on the University of New Mexico's main campus in Albuquerque, the state's flagship [public R1 university](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_New_Mexico). In the early morning hours of Wednesday, June 26, 2024, a person at the field was [stabbed in the arm and robbed of a green backpack](https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/police-search-for-suspect-in-stabbing-robbery-on-unm-campus/), with the suspect using a small knife before fleeing southbound off campus. UNM issued a [Lobo Alert shortly before 2:00 AM MDT](https://news.unm.edu/categories/advisories/lobo-alert-6-26-2024) carrying a detailed suspect description and the direction of flight, and [UNM Police later sought information from the public](https://www.krqe.com/news/crime/unm-police-searching-for-stabbing-suspect/), with Albuquerque Metro Crime Stoppers offering up to a $1,000 reward. The verbatim alert text — including its boilerplate UNMPD contact and Crime Stoppers tip-line footer — is preserved on UNM's own UCAM Newsroom advisory archive, one of several 2024 Lobo Alerts that document how the flagship handles overnight violent-crime timely warnings.", "keyFindings": [ "UNM issued a fully detailed timely warning within minutes of an overnight armed robbery, naming the suspect's appearance, the stolen green backpack, and the direction of flight (southbound, off campus)", "The verbatim alert is preserved on UNM's official UCAM Newsroom archive and corroborated by KOB 4 and KRQE, which independently reproduced the suspect description and the up-to-$1,000 reward", "The alert's Crime Stoppers footer (505-843-STOP) reflects UNM's standard practice of pairing at-large-suspect timely warnings with an anonymous-tip pathway" ], "sources": [ { "title": "Lobo Alert - 6.26.2024 (UNM UCAM Newsroom)", "url": "https://news.unm.edu/categories/advisories/lobo-alert-6-26-2024", "type": "official-archive" }, { "title": "Police seek info on overnight stabbing, robbery at UNM (KOB 4)", "url": "https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/police-search-for-suspect-in-stabbing-robbery-on-unm-campus/", "type": "local-media" }, { "title": "UNM Police searching for stabbing suspect (KRQE)", "url": "https://www.krqe.com/news/crime/unm-police-searching-for-stabbing-suspect/", "type": "local-media" } ], "confidence": "high", "tags": [ "robbery", "stabbing", "armed-robbery", "timely-warning", "public-r1", "new-mexico", "johnson-field", "suspect-fled", "crime-stoppers", "loboalerts" ], "dateAdded": "2026-06-21", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-21", "addedBy": "ingestion" }