A 14-year-old lay dead with blood pooling from a gunshot wound to the head as police stood by for 40 minutes while a resident assistant struggled to find the right key to the University of New Mexico dorm room.

Later, several UNM Police officers watched surveillance video of an inebriated 18-year-old, the alleged shooter, doing a backflip in a parking lot after dropping a gun and disappearing into the night, shattering windows on a rooftop and leaving a blood trail.

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