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Albuquerque police released this sketch of a man they say is of interest in the double homicide.
Invoking the specter of the infamous 1996 Hollywood Video murders, Albuquerque Police Chief Ray Schultz said his department will be handling information in the city's latest homicides with the same hyper-caution.
Tak Yi, 79, and his wife, Pung Yi, 69, were found dead in their home on the 6900 block of Avenida La Costa Northeast on Tuesday afternoon by their son, who had stopped to check on them.
The two suffered massive trauma to their heads, but police aren't releasing whether that trauma was a beating, shooting or stabbing.
That is just one of the details that needs to be managed to keep control of "a very complex case," Schultz said at a news conference Wednesday.
But unlike in the Hollywood Video murders, when news media were criticized for releasing too much information, Schultz did provide the public with some details.
He also asked for publicity of a sketch of a man police are calling a person of interest.
The man, believed to be white, in his teens or early 20s and about 5 feet 11 inches tall, had earlier in the week approached a home about a block from the Yi household.
The man had a conversation with the homeowner and asked to come inside the home, Schultz said.
The man is being targeted as a person of interest because of his "very unusual behavior" in the neighborhood on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, but Schultz would not say what he had done beyond the conversation with the neighbor.
Police say there seems to be no sign of forced entry into the Yi home.
And Schultz said detectives are working with the Yis' four children to determine whether items are missing from the home.
"There does not seem to be a clear motive," Schultz said. "We are pulling all the stops out on this case."
The couple's son told police he had not heard from them for a day and checked on them around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. He called police for help, police spokesman John Walsh said.
Officers found one of the victims in a hallway and the other in the kitchen.
Autopsies performed Wednesday are expected to determine what killed the couple.
Meanwhile, Schultz said he plans to control the release of information in this case the way it was controlled in the 1996 homicides of five people that began at a Hollywood Video store.
Police and then-District Attorney Bob Schwartz railed against local media for releasing too much information, claiming that it jeopardized police efforts to verify thousands of tips from the public.
