Police investigate Saturday night collision, possible shooting

Nov. 17—Santa Fe police are investigating a roll-over crash in which the occupants of both vehicles fled the scene Saturday night on St. Francis Drive.

Around 10 p.m. Saturday, officers were dispatched to a site on St. Francis Drive between Interstate 25 and Rabbit Road following reports of a motor vehicle collision, Capt. Bryan Martinez said Sunday.

They found two vehicles at the scene: a white Toyota pickup truck and a red GMC pickup, which had rolled over. The GMC was previously reported stolen, and officers found a handgun next to it, Martinez said.

However, he added, they did not find any people at the scene.

"They weren't able to locate anybody else in the area — no victims, no suspects," he said.

Later, Martinez said, police found a man walking near Rodeo Park Drive who had sustained injuries consistent with a crash of that magnitude.

Martinez said the man claimed to have been sitting in the passenger's seat of the red pickup when it encountered the Toyota. The driver of the Toyota then pursued the GMC, with someone in the truck firing shots at the GMC and eventually crashing into it.

The incident is under investigation, Martinez said, but officers "do have an idea of who or what was going on."

Authorities have identified body parts found in a freezer earlier this year in Colorado as belonging to a teenager who went missing nearly two decades ago. The Mesa County Sheriff's Office confirmed that the remains are those of Amanda Leariel Overstreet, who had not been seen since April 2005. Her head and hands were discovered in a freezer at a home in Grand Junction, about 240 miles west of Denver, in January. Overstreet was the biological daughter of the home's previous owners. The remains were found when the new owners, who had recently purchased and remodeled the home, attempted to give away the freezer. Investigators have emphasized that the current owners are not connected to the case. Overstreet's disappearance had never been formally reported, and the case remains under investigation, according to the sheriff's office.