Ex-CNN Reporter Hailed As Hero After Motel Shootout

Chuck DeCaro, Lynne Russell

A former CNN investigative reporter shot and killed an armed robber in a motel on Albuquerque's Westside late Tuesday, according to his wife.

After repsonding to a 911 call police said they found a man dead in the parking lot of a Motel 6 with at least one gunshot wound.

Lynne Russell, also a former CNN anchor, told KOB-TV4 she and her husband, Chuck de Caro, decided to stop at the motel for the night because they were tired after a long day of traveling and had their dog with them. When she went out to the car to get something and returned to the room, she said an armed man was at the door with a handgun.



De Caro is a former CNN investigative reporter and a consultant for the Pentagon. Russell was an anchor for CNN Headline News and retired about 10 years ago. She was not hurt in the incident.