Imagine losing a family member in a completely avoidable car crash. Now imagine that the completely avoidable car crash was thanks to a drunk guy who shouldn’t have even been in this country in the first place.
That’s the heartbreaking situation one Colorado family has found themselves in after 46-year-old Melissa Powell and her 16-year-old son, Riordan, were killed in an automobile accident on December 12, just two weeks shy of Christmas. The driver of the car that hit them has been identified as 37-year-old Jose Guadalupe Menjivar-Alas, an illegal alien from El Salvador who’s already been booted from the United States - get this - at least four times, only to reenter illegally because we have a joke of a border and next to nothing stopping known criminals from just meandering into the U.S.
According to a Daily Caller report that cited Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in addition to his multiple deportations, Menjivar-Alas also has four separate convictions in Boulder County Court for alcohol-related driving offenses that occurred between 2007 and 2019.
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According to reports at the time of the crash, Powell was turning left at an intersection near Broomfield High School, where Riordan was a student, when her car was struck dead-on by Menjivar in a 2000 Toyota Tundra. Powell was pronounced dead at the scene, and her son passed away shortly afterward after being transported to a nearby hospital. Witnesses told police Menjivar was flying down the road doing at least 80 mph in the 40-mph zone when he broadsided Powell. Authorities investigating the scene said they found two empty beer cans on the front passenger floorboard of Menjivar’s car, along with an empty can along the roadside and a pack with multiple cans missing in the rear of the vehicle.
After he was taken to the hospital, Menjivar’s blood alcohol level clocked in at .249, more than three times the legal limit of .08. He’s now been charged with reckless vehicular homicide, vehicular homicide DUI, and being a habitual traffic offender.
Not, of course, that any of that brings back Powell and her teenage son, who should be looking forward to graduating high school instead of pushing up daisies.
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