A 21 YEAR OLD MAN IS ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH A FATAL HIT AND RUN EARLY TUESDAY IN ALBUQUERQUE … ONE THAT POLICE SAY WAS INTENTIONAL. JOSEPH PEREA HAD FLED THE SCENE, BUT WAS LATER ARRESTED.
APD’S TANNER TIXIER TELLS US OFFICERS WERE SENT TO THE 6-HUNDRED BLOCK OF MARTHA NORTHEAST NEAR JUAN TABO AND I-40, WHERE THEY DISCOVERED 23 YEAR OLD DAVON MARTINEZ HAD BEEN HIT … AND HAD ALREADY DIED AT THE SCENE.
PEREA, BELIEVED TO BE THE DRIVER … IS ACCUSED OF HITTING MARTINEZ ON PURPOSE AFTER AN ALTERCATION WITH MARTINEZ AT A PARTY WHERE THEY WERE DRINKING. PEREA WAS KICKED OUT OF THAT PARTY.
