A man allegedly shot two people dead inside a New Mexico home after receiving an “encrypted message” telling him he “needed to kill” inside a cockroach, according to authorities and reports.

Police responded to a home in southwest Albuquerque just before 10:30 p.m. Friday and discovered two unidentified men dead with gunshot wounds inside the house, the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.

Alexis Hernandez, 25, allegedly fatally shot two people inside a New Mexico home after receiving an “encrypted message” in a cockroach that he “needed to kill.” Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office

Alexis Hernandez, 25, was arrested at the home and booked Saturday morning on two open counts of murder in connection to the double homicide, the Albuquerque Journal reported.

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