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Albuquerque man charged in 2024 fatal hit-and-run

Police say a 24-year-old killed a pedestrian and evaded arrest as case went 'cold'

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A man is behind bars two years after he allegedly hit and killed a pedestrian in the University area and fled the scene.

Isaiah Perez

Isaiah Perez, 24, is charged with homicide by vehicle, leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death, tampering with evidence and failure to obey a traffic signal in the April 19, 2024, crash that killed Christopher Cordova.

Perez was arrested and booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center on Tuesday. 

A charge of drug possession was tacked on after an arresting officer allegedly found pills that appeared to be fentanyl on Perez. 

Albuquerque police were dispatched around 5:45 p.m. to a crash at Central and Yale, according to a criminal complaint filed in Metropolitan Court. 

Officers learned that a red Mercedes registered to Perez was 鈥渢raveling at a high rate of speed鈥 when the vehicle ran a red light and hit Cordova, the complaint states. 

Cordova was walking through a crosswalk at the time of the crash, according to the complaint. When officers tried to find the vehicle, it was not at the address of its registered owner, Perez, and could not be located. 

On May 2, 2024, police spoke to a gas station clerk who said Perez told her that he had 鈥渒illed someone,鈥 the complaint states. The woman told police Perez said 鈥渢here was a guy in the middle of the intersection and he tried to wait for him, but he stepped on the gas.鈥

The clerk told police that Perez said Cordova 鈥渨ould not move,鈥 which caused him to accelerate, the complaint states. 

鈥淵ou might as well count that person dead,鈥 Cordova allegedly told the woman, according to the complaint. 鈥淚鈥檓 not a bad person, I did not mean to.鈥

The clerk told police she regularly saw Perez but had not seen his vehicle since the day of the crash. 

Officers spoke with Perez, who said that he did not know where the vehicle was and that it had been totaled after a crash in 2022, the complaint states. He told police that he sold the car to another man. 

Police found the vehicle鈥檚 registration expired in 2025 but had been renewed 鈥渋n either 2023 or 2024鈥 and the vehicle was still being used one year after the crash, according to the complaint. 

Officers spoke with another witness who saw Perez鈥檚 vehicle weaving in and out of traffic before the crash, the complaint states. She told police she noticed damage to the windshield and front of the vehicle. 

鈥淭he case went cold with no further leads and the vehicle was never located,鈥 according to the complaint.

Then, in January, officers responded to a domestic dispute involving Perez at a house in the 3000 block of Painted Rock NW, north of Ladera and Unser, the complaint states. 

A person involved in the dispute told officers that Perez was 鈥渙n drugs鈥 and that he used to drive a Mercedes, according to the complaint. The person told police Perez said 鈥渉e killed someone in it鈥 and a relative 鈥渉elped him cover it up.鈥 

The person told officers that Perez said he had 鈥渉it the guy so hard he knocked him out of his shoes,鈥 according to the complaint.

Officers later obtained a warrant for Perez鈥檚 phone and the location data showed his phone was in the area at the time of the crash, the complaint states. Police said a confidential informant told detectives Perez got rid of the Mercedes in Grants. 

Nakayla McClelland covers crime and breaking news. Reach her at nmcclelland@abqjournal.com or at 505-823-3857.