‘Loving’ tattoo artist gunned down at New Mexico shop, cops say. Masked man is sought
A man is shown in surveillance video walking down a street in New Mexico wearing a dark hat, a covering over his face and a jacket covering his right hand.
The jacket, police said, is covering a gun.
The unidentified man is a suspect in the still-unsolved mid-November killing of tattoo artist John Sisneros, Albuquerque police said in a Dec. 19 post on Facebook, and they’re looking for help figuring out who he is.
Police released a pair of video clips, and the FBI is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the suspect’s arrest and conviction.
Sisneros was fatally shot inside his shop, Por Vida Tattoo, on the morning of Nov. 14, KOB 4 reported at the time.
A video clip on Por Vida’s Instagram page shows a large gathering at the shop for a candlelight vigil the next day. A man can be heard encouraging those gathered to “never, ever, ever let his vibe die” and saying “we lost a king.”
In comments on the post, people shared their love for Sisneros.
“He was and is loved by so many because he is and always will be an incredible and loving person with so much to give to his loved ones and the lives of those he touched,” one person wrote on the post.
Another wrote, “you left an impression on so many, you are truly missed.”
Ruben Garcia, a friend of Sisneros’, told KRQE that the tattoo artist was open, giving and seemed to always be happy. “He will be missed in so many different facets of what he participated in,” Garcia said after his friend’s death. “I’ve never seen him angry in the whole time I met him.”
This story was originally published December 20, 2024 at 4:34 PM with the headline "‘Loving’ tattoo artist gunned down at New Mexico shop, cops say. Masked man is sought."
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