A Farmington woman at the center of a child abuse case, which involved locking a 15-year-old girl in a chicken coop, was shot and killed Wednesday morning at her home.
Patricia Madrid, 36, was arrested Feb. 18 and charged with 14 felony counts of child abuse and conspiracy to commit child abuse. She was released from custody the next day.
Her boyfriend, Jammy Jackson, 59, was the girl’s father. He was arrested by Farmington police and booked at 11:15 a.m. Wednesday into the San Juan County Detention Center on a failure-to-comply warrant.
Farmington police were called at 7:58 a.m. to the home in the 1000 block of Auburn Avenue in response to a shooting. They found Madrid with at least one gunshot wound, according to a news release from the department.
Madrid was taken to San Juan Regional Medical Center, where she died.
Madrid and Jackson allegedly kept Jackson’s 15-year-old daughter in a chicken coop, where she was “required to wear earmuffs and a blindfold.” She also was “required to stand” from about 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. each day, an arrest warrant states.
The teenage girl was allegedly abused from November 2023 to Sept. 15, 2024. It ended only after the girl, who reportedly has autism, ADHD and fetal alcohol syndrome, told her maternal grandmother that she was being abused at the family home.
Police obtained a search warrant for a number of text messages between Madrid and Jackson, which reportedly detailed the alleged abuse that occurred during the summer and winter, at times during extreme heat or extreme cold and without protection from the weather.
Madrid, who accused the girl of “stealing water,” put her on a bathroom schedule of “once in the morning and once in the evening.”
Text messages between the couple also showed they were withholding food and water from the girl to limit her use of the toilet, according to the affidavit.
In another text message, Madrid reportedly wished the teen dead, writing to Jackson, “I wish that b***ch was dead with her mom. She is a horrible human,” according to the affidavit.
Madrid reportedly started dating Jackson shortly after the girl’s mother died.
The details of Jackson’s failure-to-comply warrant have not been detailed in court records, although he was known to possess firearms and reportedly threatened his daughter with one, according to the affidavit.
The teen told the forensic interviewer that Jackson put a “gun against her head and said he didn’t mind killing someone,” and that “he didn’t care to go to jail and it was no different from killing an animal,” the affidavit says.
Jackson has not been named a suspect in Madrid’s killing, and police say the investigation remains active with no arrests made.
There is a person of interest, who police say is “a male on a bicycle” caught on video riding “east on Navajo Street toward Lincoln Avenue,” said Shanice Gonzales, a spokeswoman for Farmington police.
Farmington police urge anyone with information or video surveillance from the area to contact detectives at (505) 599-1068.
