CHARGES FILED IN DEADLY CRASH

A FATAL WRECK IN ALBUQUERQUE'S OLD TOWN AREA LAST NOVEMBER HAS NOW RESULTED IN VEHICULAR HOMICIDE CHARGES. A GRAND JURY HAS INDICTED 21 YEAR OLD JOSHUA LEAL IN THE CRASH THAT KILLED UNM STUDENTS BRIANA HILLARD AND MATTHEW GRANT…AND INJURED TWO OTHERS. THE D-A'S OFFICE SAYS LEAL WAS DRIVING A STOLEN PICKUP WHEN HE CRASHED INTO THE OTHER VEHICLE ON RIO GRANDE BLVD. DRUG RESULTS ALSO SHOW LEAL HAD METH IN HIS SYSTEM AT THE TIME OF THE WRECK. 
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