Man charged with vehicular homicide after 2 die in crash following police chase in SE Albuquerque
Jul. 18—A second person has died following a car chase involving a man and police in Southeast Albuquerque on Wednesday afternoon.
Malaktazadak Kyser, 25,of Albuquerque is charged with vehicular homicide, great bodily harm, and failure to yield to traffic controls.
Kyser is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center. It is unclear who his attorney is.
In November, he pleaded guilty to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after shooting at a man near the fairgrounds, according to court records.
At about 4:20 p.m. Wednesday, Albuquerque Police Department officers were attempting to speak to people inside a vehicle outside a smoke shop in the 7800 block of Central, near Pennsylvania, when it fled, according to a criminal complaint filed at Metropolitan Court.
APD spokesman Gilbert Gallegos said officers used Starchase — a GPS tracking device fired onto a moving vehicle — to allow dispatchers to track it.
Police said a witness told them that the vehicle — driven by a man later identified as Kyser — went north on Española at a "high rate of speed," ran a stop sign, then hit an SUV going west on Marquette, near the fairgrounds.
Gallegos said the vehicles crashed through a sign post, fire hydrant and fence on the northwest corner of the intersection.
The complaint states that officers found two people; one was pronounced dead at a hospital, while the other suffered a broken pelvis and arm and "possible internal bleeding."
Gallegos said the second person died on Wednesday. Kyser is being treated at a hospital for undisclosed injuries. It is unclear whether alcohol contributed to the incident.
