05-03-2025
Man charged in stabbing, robbery near downtown Santa Fe bar
A man has been accused by Santa Fe police of taking part in the robbery and stabbing of another man early Sunday outside a bar in downtown Santa Fe.
Santa Fe police filed charges Monday against Angelo Vigil, who officers say lured another man away from The Matador — a bar on Galisteo Street — and robbed him at knifepoint with two others before one of the men stabbed the victim three times.
Court records indicate Vigil has lived in Santa Fe for years, but the address on file for the most recent charges is located in Albuquerque.
Vigil, 26, faces charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, armed robbery and two counts of conspiracy, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday in Santa Fe County Magistrate Court.
An arrest warrant was issued Monday against Vigil on the charges, but he had not been arrested as of Tuesday, said Santa Fe police Lt. Jimmie Montoya.
Montoya said officers were still working to identify the other two men involved in the incident, including the man who appears to have stabbed the victim, a 39-year-old man from out of town.
Investigators wrote in an affidavit they retrieved surveillance video from a nearby storefront that captured the incident, which took place just after 2 a.m. less than a block from the bar on the sidewalk of Galisteo Street.
Police wrote Vigil could be seen in the video wearing a #21 San Antonio Spurs jersey with a black undershirt and glasses, and that he could be seen walking with the victim away from the entrance of The Matador.
The victim told police during an interview Sunday the bar had closed and he was waiting for his ride outside when one of the men — later identified by police as Vigil — approached him and told him about an after-party, luring him away from the crowd, the affidavit states.
After they walked down the sidewalk, he told police, three other men walked up and one of them told him to give them everything he had. He said he handed over his Rolex watch, a chain necklace and about $500 in cash from his pocket. The victim told officers the gold chain was worth about $500 and his watch was valued at about $12,000, investigators wrote.
The men could be seen on surveillance video walking with Vigil down Guadalupe to a spot in front of a gallery down the block, the affidavit says. After the other men walked up to them, a man who was wearing a black hoodie and tan pants could be seen in the video grabbing at the victim's shirt and then, after a "brief struggle," making three consecutive motions toward the victim's abdomen, police wrote. The three men police consider to be suspects could then be seen running west on Water Street while the fourth unknown man walked back toward The Matador with the victim, according to investigators.
Police and paramedics were dispatched to the scene outside The Matador just before 2:30 a.m. Sunday, the affidavit states, and officers found the victim leaning against a wall with stab wounds to his abdomen as another man applied pressure to the wounds with a shirt. The victim was taken to an area hospital for treatment of his injuries and was in stable condition, police said at the time.
Investigators identified Vigil after several people commented on a Santa Fe police Facebook post identifying him as the man in the jersey, the affidavit states. Police then checked Vigil's Facebook account and found he had posted videos showing him in the same jersey in the hours before the incident, investigators wrote.
Vigil has faced about a dozen different criminal charges in Santa Fe County stretching back to 2017, but many of them have been dismissed by prosecutors. He was convicted in 2021 on counts of shoplifting, robbery and receiving or transferring stolen motor vehicles and was sentenced to two and a half years in prison, according to a court order. He was then kept at Santa Fe County jail for a year after violating the conditions of his release, and he was released from jail in October 2024, according to court records.
While Vigil was an inmate at Santa Fe County jail in 2019, he was accused of stealing a commissary card from another man worth $10, according to a criminal complaint filed in the incident. Sheriff's deputies alleged Vigil and another inmate held the man down and took the "calling card" out of the pocket of his jumpsuit.
