Victims identified in highway 70 crash

Las Cruces Police are continuing to investigate Wednesday morning’s crash on U.S. Highway 70 that claimed the lives of a 15-year-old high school student and his mother.

 Keian Padilla, 15, and his 35-year-old mother Marcia K. Parra were pronounced dead at the scene of today’s crash on U.S. Highway 70 just east of the Sonoma Ranch overpass. 
Padilla and Parra were the only occupants of a 4-door sedan that was headed eastbound on Highway 70 when it was struck by an Isuzu Rodeo that was traveling westbound and crossed the center divide. 
The crash was reported shortly after 8 a.m. Both directions of Highway 70 were closed for several hours while traffic investigators gathered evidence and plotted the scene. 


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