The MANY mugshots of serial criminal shot dead by CNN anchor's husband in wild motel gun fight
- Tomorio Walton was fatally wounded during a shootout in a motel room
- Police said the 27-year-old was parole violator from Memphis, TN
- Walton had long rap sheet and most recent arrest was last Christmas Eve
- Chuck de Caro underwent surgery after suffering three gunshot wounds
Killed: Tomorio Walton, 27, was a parole violator from Tennessee, police said
A gunman shot dead by former CNN reporter Chuck de Caro has been identified as a parole violator from Tennessee.
Tomorio Walton, 27, was fatally wounded by de Caro during a shootout in a motel room in Albuquerque on Tuesday.
De Caro and his wife - former Headline News anchor and CNN correspondent Lynne Russell -were on a road trip and spending the night when killed the man during what Russell an attempted robbery.
Police said an assailant accosted Ms Russell in the parking lot of the motel at about 11.35 pm and then pushed her into her hotel room as de Caro was getting out of the shower.
Walton then started shooting at de Caro, and de Caro returned fire and killed him with a legally owned hand gun, Russell said.
'Chuck fired back, and it was a shootout,' she said. 'He saved my life.'
De Caro needed surgery for his wounds following the altercation.
Officer Tanner Tixier said Walton was a parole violator from Memphis, and it is unknown how long he has been in the Albuquerque area,NBC News reports.
Many faces: Tomorio Walton's last recorded arrest was on Christmas Eve 2014, when he was picked up for criminal damage in the form of vandalism worth less than $500. He had three felony convictions: one for theft, for which he was sentenced on 22 January 2008, and two for burglary – one burglary from a car, the other burglary from a place other than a home
Serious rap sheet: Walton was sentenced on 26 August 2010 for the two burglaries. The sentence is not recorded. Walton's other arrests include being picked up for burglary from a motor vehicle in November 2011; aggravated criminal trespass in March 2012; criminal trespass, evading arrest, patronizing prostitution and possession of drug paraphernalia later that same month; failing to appear at a booking in April 2012; theft of property worth $500 or less in May 2012; an unspecified crime in June 2012; another unspecified crime in July 2012; and a probation violation in August 2012
Stuck to Tennessee: Walton was arrested in April 2013 and held on $100 bond for theft of property worth less than $500. He was arrested on the same charge in May 2013, and in September 2013 held over aggravated criminal trespass. All his criminal history appeared to have taken place in Shelby County, which includes Memphis
No charges are expected to be filed against de Caro.
'I am really proud of him,' Ms Russell said. 'I thank him over and over for saving my life. He really is my hero.'
De Caro, who worked at CNN in the mid-1980s as special assignments correspondent, was coming out of the bathroom after taking a shower and saw Ms Russell being held at gunpoint.
She said she put one of the two handguns the couple had in a side table into the purse and gave the handbag to her husband.
A gunfight broke out in the room and De Caro was shot once in the leg and twice in the abdomen.
He fired all the rounds in the first handgun then picked up the other and shot Walton.
Western gunfight: Longtime Headline News anchor Lynne Russel called de Caro her hero after he shot dead a gunman who entered their Albuquerque motel room hoping to rob them
'I am really proud of him,' Ms Russell said of her husband and former colleague. 'I thank him over and over for saving my life. He really is my hero.' Here, a mobile crime lab sits outside the Albuquerque Motel 6
An Albuquerque Police Department officer collects evidence Wednesday after a man was killed and another injured during the altercation
He was found in the parking lot but died in hospital.
Walton's rap sheet appears to have been a lengthy one.
His last recorded arrest was on Christmas Eve 2014, when he was picked up for criminal damage in the form of vandalism worth less than $500.
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