Days after a fight at an Easter Sunday gathering escalated into a violent crash and shooting that critically injured two people, prosecutors are pushing to keep two men jailed until their trials.
A Santa Fe defense attorney representing one of the defendants called the request a “total abuse” of the state’s pretrial detention system and noted a man injured by gunfire who appeared to be an aggressor in the incident — accused of striking two people with a pickup — has not been charged with any crimes.
David Foster said the argument for his client, accused shooter Santiago Prada, 34, would be “clearly one of self-defense, for himself and another.”