**Woman Arrested Six Years After Fatal Stabbing in Southeast Albuquerque**
*By Nakayla McClelland | ABQ Journal | November 1, 2025*
A woman is behind bars six years after she allegedly stabbed a man to death at a home in Southeast Albuquerque.
Antionette Hernandez, 29, was arrested Thursday and charged with an open count of murder and criminal trespass in the 2019 killing of 38-year-old Eric Lewis. Hernandez does not yet have an attorney.
Lewis’ stabbing went unsolved for six years after the detective on the case was promoted to sergeant, according to court records. The case was later assigned to an investigator for review before being transferred to a homicide detective in April 2025.
Prosecutors filed a motion on Friday to keep Hernandez behind bars until trial, citing that she “exhibited violent and dangerous behavior that threatens the safety of the community.”
“The Court will be unable to ensure that the Defendant is not possessing knives, and not threatening, or hurting more innocent people,” the motion states.
Police were conducting a patrol on September 27, 2019, of condemned houses in Southeast Albuquerque to ensure that no one was living inside them, according to a criminal complaint filed in Metropolitan Court. Around 11:30 a.m., officers entered a condemned home in the 400 block of Utah SE, south of Zuni, and noticed “a wad of hair on the floor and a strange smell,” the complaint says.
Officers saw bloody shoe prints throughout the kitchen floor and found Lewis’ body. An autopsy later determined that Lewis had been fatally stabbed.
The investigation remained cold until recent developments led to Hernandez’s arrest.
[Read more at abqjournal.com]
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*Note: This report is based on publicly available court records and information provided by law enforcement authorities. Hernandez is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.*
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