Driver charged with deaths of pedestrians 　　 　　By JOHN MARBLE 　　Monitor Staff Writer 　　 　　Police records show that a Los Alamos man who was arrested in connection with a fatal traffic accident on North Mesa Road made a racially pejorative slur against the victims when taken into custody. 　　John G. Martinez, 41, 945 San Ildefonso Road, has been charged with two counts of vehicular homicide while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs after he allegedly struck and killed two Los Alamos women who were walking on North Mesa Road at about 8:45 p.m. Friday night. 　　Xunung (Michelle) Wu, 40, Kristi Lane, and Jing Xuan (Jean Shane) Shi, 36, Mendius Lane, died at Los Alamos Medical Center following the accident. Shi’s 6-month-old son, Alfred Chen, was in a stroller with the women and suffered a head injury. Chen was initially treated and released from LAMC, but a family friend said he is now in University of New Mexico Hospital. 　　The probable cause statement for Martinez’s arrest shows that Martinez "protested he had done nothing wrong and the victims should not have been in the street." The statement indicates the last thing Martinez said before he was put in a police vehicle and transported to Los Alamos County Detention Facility was, "You should keep them Chinks out of the God-damned road." 　　Los Alamos Police Department Capt. Marla Brooks said Martinez registered blood alcohol contents (BAC) of .27 and .28 on Breathalyzer tests at the jail Friday night, more than three times the legal limit of .08. Martinez was also taken to LAMC for a blood test. 　　Brooks said records at this time show that Martinez was previously charged with two DWIs (driving while intoxicated). 　　The probable cause statement shows that Martinez told police he "only had a couple of beers." The statement shows that during a field sobriety test, five of six clues indicated that he was intoxicated. When asked to say the alphabet beginning with the letter J, Martinez skipped from O to Z. 　　When asked to count by odd numbers, Martinez replied "two." When asked if he knew odd numbers, Martinez replied "yes," and then counted "one, three, five, seven, nine, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 21. 　　The probable cause statement shows that Martinez "resisted somewhat" during his arrest, and two police officers were needed to handcuff him. 　　Brooks said Wu and Shi were walking eastbound, pushing the stroller, in the roadway and on the south side of North Mesa Road between the North Mesa Picnic Grounds and Terry Lane at the time of the accident. 　　Martinez was eastbound on North Mesa Road and hit the pedestrians from behind. Brooks said it did not appear that Martinez was travelling at excessive speed. 　　The probable cause statement shows that when police arrived on the scene, one of the women’s bodies was lying in the roadway in the eastbound traffic lane and the other was just off the south side of the roadway near the eastbound traffic lane. Both women were "bleeding profusely." 　　Wu’s 5-year-old son, Shi’s 9-year-old daughter, and another boy also were eastbound on North Mesa Road, riding bicycles ahead of the group. Brooks said that when the children realized the group hadn’t caught up with them, they turned back and were intercepted by teenagers at the Sheriff’s Posse Shack. 　　The teenagers brought the children to Brooks’ attention, and they were taken to LAPD and released to relatives and friends. Brooks said the children were not part of the accident scene. 　　The accident is still under investigation, Brooks said. 　　"We want to piece together every single event that we can," she said. 　　Shi and her family moved to Los Alamos in 1994. She worked in the Bioscience Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory. 　　Wu and her family moved to Los Alamos in 1993. She worked at Los Alamos National Bank. 　　The original charges against Martinez have been amended. He was initially charged with a separate DWI charge, but that was dropped as a separate charge after the two women died. 　　The DWI charge is now included in each of the charges of vehicular homicide while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs. 　　Martinez is also charged with driving on a suspended driver’s license and careless driving. His original $250,000 cash bond was raised to a $1 million cash bond after Wu died. He was arraigned in Magistrate Court in Santa Fe this afternoon.

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