Story highlights Father of slain Lilly Garcia, 4, calls motorist who cut him off a 'f------ idiot' 
 
 Motorist pulls up, utters something, and later opens fire, Alan Garcia tells police 
 
 Police tipster identifies the motorist, who claims Garcia tried to run him off the road 
 
 (CNN) Road rage escalated into deadly violence when a motorist fired into another vehicle on a New Mexico interstate, killing a 4-year-old girl, according to newly released court documents and police records. 
 
 Illiana "Lilly" Rose Garcia was declared dead at a hospital after the incident Tuesday afternoon on Interstate 40 in Albuquerque. 
 
 Tony D. Torrez, 32, was arrested Wednesday and is charged with an open count of murder, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, assault with the intent to commit a violent felony, shooting at or from a motor vehicle, child abuse, child abuse resulting in death and tampering with evidence. He is being held on a $650,000 cash-only bond. 
 
 On Thursday, Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court Judge Chris Schultz continued the bail amount, a court spokeswoman said. A public defender assisted Torrez, who appeared over a video monitor from a detention center. Torrez doesn't yet have an attorney, the spokeswoman said. 
 
 The episode of highway rage transpired as quickly as two vehicles can cover two miles of highway. 
 
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 The accused road rage killer who a Metropolitan Court judge said committed one of the “most wanton and atrocious acts in the history of this city” will likely remain behind bars for a while, with the judge continuing his bond at $650,000 cash only. 
 
 “If members of the motoring public receive gunfire as a result of slights on the highway, I don’t know who is safe,” Metropolitan Court Judge Chris Schultz said at Tony Torrez’s first court appearance Thursday. 
 
 Police arrested Torrez, 31, on Wednesday afternoon in the fatal shooting of 4-year-old Lilly Garcia on Interstate 40 in an apparent road rage incident the day before. 
 
 In his felony first appearance on Thursday, televised from the detention center, Torrez kept his head hung low and spoke only once, responding “no sir” to the judge’s question. 
 
 It was not the first time Torrez has been accused of wielding a gun in a road rage incident, and Schultz cited Torrez’s history, his pattern of failing to appear for hearings and his danger to the community as reasons for continuing the high bond. 
 
 New details of the tragic shooting emerged Thursday with the release of a criminal complaint. 
 
 Lilly’s father, Alan Garcia, told police that he picked up Lilly and his 7-year-old son from school Tuesday afternoon in his red Dodge truck. As he was heading to the grocery store off the southbound Coors exit, a driver – later identified as Torrez – cut across two lanes of traffic in front of him, according to the criminal complaint. 
 
 “Alan said he stated ‘(expletive) idiot’ to the driver of the Toyota,” the complaint states. 
 
 The road rage escalated. 
 
 Torrez approached Garcia on the driver’s side and continued to weave around the lanes as Garcia accelerated, according to the complaint. 
 
 Garcia told police that he tried to distance himself from the red Toyota as he heard two shots strike his vehicle. 
 
 Garcia said his son told him, “She’s bleeding,” referring to Lilly. He heard another shot as Torrez’s car approached the passenger side of his truck. 
 
 As Garcia slammed on his brakes to stop on the interstate, he was fired on again, according to the complaint. 
 
 When officers arrived where Garcia had stopped on the interstate’s median west of Unser, a woman was holding Lilly’s head and another woman was holding her feet, according to the complaint. 
 
 Lilly was taken to the University of New Mexico Hospital, where she died from a gunshot to the head. 
 
 Working off Garcia’s and other witnesses’ accounts, police released a detailed description of Torrez and his red Toyota with a spoiler on the back, tinted windows and University of New Mexico license plate late Tuesday. 
 
 Late Wednesday morning, homicide detectives got an anonymous tip from a caller who said that Torrez told others he shot the girl on Interstate 40 because the red truck tried to run him off the road. 
 
 The caller gave police Torrez’s address. Detectives tracked Torrez to Central and Sunset, and he was detained for questioning, according to a police spokeswoman. 
 
 Torrez confessed that he was responsible for the fatal shooting, said APD spokeswoman Celina Espinoza. He is charged with an open count of murder, child abuse resulting in death and several other charges. 
 
 When police executed a search warrant for Torrez’s house in the 7600 block of Saltbrush SW, they found the reddish-maroon Toyota they had been looking for in the garage and the gun they believe he used in the shooting. 
 
 Alma Sanchez lives next door to Torrez. She said he had several cars and she hadn’t seen the red Toyota, but as soon as she saw it come out of the garage, she knew he was the one accused of shooting Lilly. 
 
 “My husband talked to him a lot,” Sanchez said. “He didn’t seem like that kind of person who would do those things. My husband couldn’t believe it was the neighbor, but when he saw the picture, he was like, ‘Yeah, it’s him.’ ” 
 
 Not the first time 
 
 Torrez has a criminal history, and this wasn’t the first time he had been charged in a road rage incident. 
 
 In 2006, Torrez pulled a gun on a man in a parking structure who was angry because Torrez’s car was blocking the exit, according to the complaint. 
 
 The other driver told police he was able to disarm Torrez, causing the gun to drop to the ground, and put him in a chokehold. Three shots were fired in an ensuing struggle over the gun, and a friend of Torrez’s was struck in the forehead, but it was unclear if it was from a bullet. 
 
 The charges against Torrez were dismissed without prejudice – meaning they could be refiled – because the witness and victim did not cooperate with the state’s prosecutors, according to online court records. In online court records, Torrez is referred to as Tony Torres. 
 
 Several other cases against Torrez involve guns. 
 
 In 2008, his girlfriend told police he pointed a handgun at her and asked her if she “wanted to die,” according to a criminal complaint filed in Metropolitan Court. 
 
 In another case, police found a handgun in his glove box after searching his car. 
 
 Torrez has faced charges in nine different misdemeanor or felony cases, according to online court records. All of those, except for two traffic violations, were dismissed due to insufficient evidence to prosecute or because the victim didn’t cooperate, according to Kayla Anderson, a spokeswoman for the 2nd Judicial District Attorney’s Office. ||||| SALEM, Ore. (KOIN) — A young mother and 4 children were killed in a head-on crash caused, police say, by a reckless driver under the influence of intoxicants. 
 
 Lizette Medrano-Perez, 25, and 4 children — Ivan Ricardo, 8, and Andrus, 6, and girls Dayanara, 4, and Angelina, 2 — died when their Buick Century was hit by a Land Rover driven by Favian R. Garcia. 
 
 The 3 older children were Medrano’s own. She was also the temporary legal guardian for her niece Angelina. 
 
 The crash happened around 4:40 p.m. Sunday about a mile north of Salem on Hwy 99E near Nevada Street. Investigators said the Land Rover was headed north and was coming around a corner in the road when the crash happened. 
 
 All 5 people died at the scene. 
 
 Garcia, 27, sustained minor injuries. Officers arrested him and charged him with 5 counts of manslaughter I, felony driving while under the influence of intoxicants, reckless driving, misdemeanor driving while suspended and outstanding unrelated Marion County Warrants. 
 
 He’s expected to appear in court on Tuesday. 
 
 KOIN 6 News checked his record and found Garcia has had 2 previous DUII charges, including one just 2 months ago. 
 
 “To see the sadness in people’s eyes knowing their family members aren’t coming back because somebody made a bad choice is just one of the worst parts about our job,” said OSP Trooper Bob Charpentier. 
 
 The Oregon State Police said they’re pouring resources into this investigation to make sure they do a flawless job. Four different accident reconstruction teams are involved to help put together a really clear picture of what exactly happened. 
 
 Family and friends are mourning the loss of the young family. Medrano-Perez’s friend Amanda LaFollette sent KOIN the following statement: 
 
 She was a beautiful person, I don’t think in the almost year I’ve known her that I’ve seen her angry, or shed a single tear. She worked hard for her children those where her pride and joy, she would do anything for them. She went through some hard times and struggled with worrying about her mother’s health but you wouldn’t notice it because in front of her fears and pain always stood a smile of gold. She loved her family more than life itself and would do anything for them, she always made sure her kids had all their needs and would often times stop what she was doing to be a shoulder for her friends, this truly is one of the hardest and most tragic incidents. She will be truly missed by so many!” 
 
 Any crash witnesses who have not spoken to police are asked to call 800.452.7888. 
 
 There is a GoFundMe to help cover funeral costs. ||||| The New Mexico teenager accused of fatally shooting his parents and three younger siblings told authorities he was annoyed with his mother and had been having homicidal and suicidal thoughts, according to a probable cause statement. 
 
 A bouquet of flowers adorns the entrance to a home on Monday, Jan. 21, 2013, where a couple and their three young children were found shot to death south of Albuquerque, N.M. The couple's 15-year-old... (Associated Press) 
 
 Nehemiah Griego, 15, was arrested following the shootings Saturday at a home in a rural area southwest of Albuquerque where he lived with his family. He remained in custody on charges of murder and child abuse resulting in death. 
 
 Bernalillo County Sheriff Dan Houston plans to hold a news conference Tuesday morning, and the teen could make his first court appearance in the next day or two. 
 
 A sheriff's detective questioned the teen Saturday night. The statement detailed their conversation. 
 
 The teen allegedly told the detective that he took a .22 caliber rifle from his parents' closet around midnight Saturday and shot his mother in the head while his younger brother slept next to her. 
 
 Griego told the detective that his brother did not believe him that their mother was dead so he showed his mother's bloody face to his brother and then shot him, according to the statement. 
 
 He's accused of then shooting his two young sisters in their room. He retrieved an AR-15 rifle from his parents' closet and waited in a downstairs bathroom for his father to come home. The statement said he shot his father multiple times after he passed the bathroom doorway. 
 
 The teen said he reloaded the guns so "he could drive to a populated area to murder more people," according to the statement. His plan, the statement said, was to "shoot people at random and eventually be killed while exchanging gunfire with law enforcement." 
 
 Sheriff's spokesman Deputy Aaron Williamson said Monday he couldn't immediately comment on the document. 
 
 Detectives have spent two days collecting evidence and trying to piece together what led to the violence. 
 
 "There's no other way to say it, except that we have a horrific crime scene down there that we are working on," Houston said Sunday. 
 
 On Monday afternoon, the metal gate at the home's entrance was shut, a small bouquet of purple flowers was on the top of the gate and at each side sat religious signs, including one that read: "Jesus is the reason for the season." 
 
 The sheriff's office identified the victims as Greg Griego, 51, his wife Sarah Griego, 40, and three of their children: a 9-year-old boy, Zephania Griego, and daughters Jael Griego, 5, and Angelina Griego, 2. All appeared to have gunshot wounds to the head. 
 
 Greg Griego was a pastor who had once served at Calvary, one of Albuquerque's largest Christian churches. He was also well-known throughout the law enforcement community for his work as a voluntary chaplain. 
 
 Neighbor Terry Wootan described Griego as a man with a big heart. The two sometimes chatted at the mailbox and waved when passing by. Wootan said Griego told him about his time in California when he was involved in gangs and how he turned his life around and found God. 
 
 "What he wanted to do was help people, and he would never quit," Wootan said. 
 
 The pastor's death has shocked the community, including the Albuquerque Fire Department and the Metropolitan Detention Center, where he volunteered his spiritual guidance. 
 
 A records check by the Children, Youth and Families Department indicated no trouble with the family and that Nehemiah Griego had never been in trouble with the law. 
 
 "This youth had no history with the juvenile justice system," agency spokesman Bob Tafoya said Monday. 
 
 Williamson confirmed there was no history of any emergency calls to the home in the recent past. 
 
 Neighbors said they saw the first police cars and ambulances arrive at the home Saturday night. The road was blocked and word of the shootings began to make its way through the neighborhood. 
 
 According to the probable cause statement, Nehemiah Griego first told a staff member at Calvary that his family was dead and that he placed the two rifles in the family van as protection before driving to the church. He later changed his story, according to the detective's statement. 
 
 Asked if he had told anyone else about murdering his family, Griego allegedly told the detective that he had taken a picture of his dead mother and sent it to his girlfriend. 
 
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 Associated Press writer Paul Davenport in Phoenix contributed to this report.
– The man police say confessed to the shocking road-rage killing of a 4-year-old girl in Albuquerque, NM, has a long history of criminal charges—including a previous road-rage incident involving a gun—but no history of convictions. In the previous incident, Tony Torrez allegedly pulled a gun on a man in a parking garage in 2006 and was charged after the gun went off during a struggle and his friend was injured, the Albuquerque Journal reports. The charges were dismissed after the victim and a witness failed to cooperate with prosecutors, which appears to be a common theme in nine cases involving Torrez, including a 2008 incident where he allegedly pointed a gun at his girlfriend and asked her if she "wanted to die," the Journal reports. KOB reports that the only case where a charge against Torrez stuck was a parking ticket. Torrez appeared in court Thursday on several charges, including murder, child abuse resulting in death, and tampering with evidence, CNN reports. He's being held on $650,000 bond. Court documents revealed more details of the shooting that the judge called one of the "most wanton and atrocious acts in the history of this city," per the Journal. Alan Garcia, father of 4-year-old Lilly, told police that he was on his way to the grocery store on Tuesday with his two children when a car crossed two lanes of traffic in front of him and blocked his exit. Garcia told police that he swore at the other driver, who shot at his truck several times, killing his daughter with at least one shot to the head. A GoFundMe page in honor of Lilly has raised more than $70,000, reports KOB.