Man Arrested in Auto Pedestrian Accident
Written by Post Public Information Representative, May 20, 2009, 30 Comments
On Saturday May 16, 2009 at 1:18 am the 911 dispatch received calls of an auto-pedestrian accident on 3300 block of Zapata Hwy. When first responders arrived they found 22 year old Claudia Yvette Martinez severely injured as a result of being impacted by a grey color SUV. Descriptions were issued by witnesses at the scene and police were able to locate the suspect vehicle and the driver near his residence on 200 block of Masterson Rd. Jose Luis Flores, 06-18-69, was arrested for ACCIDENT INVOLVING INJURIES F/3. A sample of his blood was withdrawn at a local hospital and logged into evidence. The specimen will be analyzed for intoxicants in his blood system at the time of the accident. Flores was remanded to Webb County Jail in lieu of no bond set by J.P. R. Veliz. The victim was flown to a San Antonio Hospital for severe trauma.
Y hasn’t any of these people commenting answered the question…What was the victim doing out walking in the streets at 4am?
my dad had nothing to do with this it was roxanna melendez she was driving she hit her she blamed it on my dad. now he got punished but she did to she got killed by the zetas and they wont be able to catch her so they are going to blame it on my dad and now he is taking her crap. my dad should be with all his six kids outside of jail
i agree with the comment for the idiots, i do know that the footage obtained by the gas station where his vehicle waas found does show him exit the passanger side and someone (roxanne i would think) exit the drivers side. sad if that is the case. i think that they didnt stop cause since it was late and dark they figured it was a dog or something, his biggest mistake was not stopping. just stop to check. what an idiot if he took the blame for a chic.
pobrecita su hija, sometimes they have no clue but no matter how everyone else sees her dad, that is her daddy. she is not making him the victim she just loves and misses him.
Another example of turning the suspects into victims like they say if you can’t do the time don’t committ the crime. All this guy had to do was stop to render aid but he decided to run and like always the suspect was released back into the community on a ridiculous bond.
this guy looks like trouble if he really took the rap for soemthing he did not do then he is an idiot i would never take the rap for no dame no mater who the fuck she is women come and go but the special moments with family come onhly once in a lifetime
my father had nothing to do with it his girlfriend roxanna melindezhad she was the one that hit claudia mtz .she was the one driving my fathers truck and my father toke the blame the he hit claudia mtz and her family came out on the news saying.she is a mother and a daughter if she was a mother and a daughter what was she doing out in the middle of the night all drug as hell and now my father jose luis flores jr is now at web county jail and he cant be here with his family on there birth day or see his granddaughter that he hasn’t seen her why because .he is in there doing he’s time my father is a very wounderful person but when he was with roxanna he’s would be diffrent but know that he is in there he is changing so please god take my father out of the problem that he is going though with what happen that night and all the thing he had done all his life.
i am not a friend or relative of Jose luis but i know that she in fact was under the influence herself. her family comes out in the news pleading that she is a mother and wife, what would a mother be doing out at that time of day walking in the dark? she should be at home with her husband and kids. i did say that Jose Luis did wrong NOT stopping to render aid but her being under the influence played a big factor in the accident!!! Im just saying, if she was sober she would of gotten out of the way or something you know. a family member of hers even says that she was addicted to drugs and that it was bound to happen! i know that it sounds mean but does any one feel bad when a homeless gets hurt? no the first thing ppl think is “well what are they doing walking around in the streets???” same here!!!!
he does deserve get punished but it’s not all his fault.
ijs
veliz continues to release criminals who’s side is he on? south laredo is not to far from becoming another nuevo laredo. ramiro veliz jr you really take the cake.
I don’t feel simpathy for the victim because nobody told the ignorant lady to be
Out crossing huge streets at 4:00 in the morning and under the influence so don’t
Hate on jose luis for a girls dumb decissions
first of all mario if i hit a pedestrian accidently the first thing i would do is stop and call 911 i would not have left so there would not have been any reason for me to have been arrested if you flee the scene of the accident it makes matters only worse so please if your reading this and your even involved in an accident of this nature please do the right thing and call the authorities. mario you claim jose is more of a man than the readers i beg to differ he is a coward and a felon. im sure he will get his soon fools like him make mistakes all the time won’t be long before he trips again and lands in jail for a long long time.
Ppl stop being such hypocrits I bet if u had hit a pedestrian
U would have wanted to be let out and for a fact the crazy girl
That got hit wu under the influence so stop being little bitches
And jose luis flores is more of a man than any of u
thats chafo saying that of the lady are u related to him jessica cuz it sounds like he is either a friend or a family member who told u she was on drugs
turning the victim into the villain shameful! jose luis broke the law not so much in hitting the victim because you like you imply we do not know the true circumstances of the incident but what we do know for a fact is that the scumbag, piece of dog fesces, fled the scene without stopping to render aid. hope this idiot rots in hell and i hope that the incident plays in his head over and over everyday till he comes to grips with the situation he left this young lady in.
this is an unfortunate incident but i have read and know about the accident, yes jose luis did wrong in not rendering aid to this young lady but sad to say she was heavily drugged as well. im not sure if her blood results have been publicized like his have, but she was under the influence of drugs. that contributed and is a big factor in this accident. what is such a good young lady doing out and about by herself at that time of the night? especially that part of town in the dark?!! it’s too dark in that area where the accident occured. we cannot only blame jose luis, she played a roll as well. hope she is doing better and that JESUS gives her another chance to live her life to the fullest.
I will spread the word ! do not vote for veliz!
I think, you guys, don’t know the law. Any defendant deserves bond and in this particular case, Jose Luis Flores is out on bond, until he’s going to be prosecuted in a courtroom. For sure, he’s going to do time for the injuries he caused to this girl Claudia, but don’t blame JP Veliz for something that he had to do in compliance to the law. He is a good judge, by the way.
south laredo do not let this jp win again just say no
sorry for the inconvinience of having to hear about family this way but reality is harsh and well unfortunately instead of punishing those who deserve it, he lets them go and perfers to aid a criminal rather then her. u know its been 3mnths and still no improvement except for the miracle of having one more day 2 breathe. She’s only 23 yrs old and she is in a nursing home. where elderlies go. What kind of life is that. And well where is Jose Luis. Gosando de la vida. Sin nigun remordimiento. She’s missed her b-day, fathers day, h b-day parties, and her niece’s birth. Her daughter’s and son’s b-days are coming up and will have no mother to even atleast acknowledge that the exsist. She’s like a new born baby. She cries all day and has no recollect of her surroundings. But all we ask for is that justice be served. atleast an i’m sorry. I court date for the family to give a chance to show what damage he has done. u know its not fair that he gets to be out and about enjoying life while all my sisters life was stripped from her. She is young, a whole life ahead of her and well now she will spend the rest of her life learning to eat, talk, speak, walk. no memmories of her past no memmories of her family or friends what kind of justice is that
i have never heard anything bad said about a family member,judge veliz. i had no idea this was going on. h. veliz
forgot to add that the man in the mugshot looks pathetic a sorry excuse for a human being i hope he rots in hell after this lifetime what kind of person fails to stop to render aid
the voters have the power to change things in 2010 make the right choice and vote for anyone but veliz. do not give him four more years tell your friends relatives neihbors compadres or whatevver y ou hang out with do not sellot
Well it looks like he’s so busy screwing his court administator that he couldn’t even read the police report which said ” NO BOND ” I wonder what Mrs. Veliz has to say.
se les va ir a mexico el cobarde
Damm how desperate can this elizabeth chick be to be having sex with her boss the JP he looks like he is three times her age isn’t she married isn’t veliz married? what a slap to the face of the south laredo voters. A JP having sex with a court administrator cant be right someone needs to plese look into this and have either her or he removed. Makes me sick to my stomach to even think about it disgusting people no wonder the foo l is letting criminals walk he to busy slapping the nasties.
I read the comments make by family and friends and I just want to let them know that my heart goes out to them and that I will keep them in my prayer. It is such a shame to hear what happened to this poor woman. Just have faith in God, don’t give up. Most important, let her know that you have faith in her and in God that everthing will be alright. I know it’s hard but if you all give up, she will too. Be strong for her and she will be strong. I send the family my most sincere wishes for a speedy recovery.
Janel Madrigal
its amazing that jose luis was let out on bond after hurting an innocent bystander. This just goes to show how currupt our political system is. I say this not only b/c of the fact that he was let go w/ a slap in the rist and a slap in the face for the family of Ms. Martinez but he was let go on a sunday. i mean those who know, it is dam impossible to be let go on a weekend. But Veliz was so desperate to help out this criminal that he dropped what he was doing to run and aid him while this same person left for dead a poor innocent women
gente del sur de laredo por favor no voten por veliz el juez deja ir y salir a criminales a nuestra comunidad este es solo un caso de varios donde a hecho fabores para que salgan criminales y todo por ganar una elecion. no es justo que siga pasando esto ustedes tienes el poder de dicir ya no hasta qi llego la corupcion no mas veliz voten por qualqier otro menos veliz.
Do not vote for Veliz if you have a Veliz Campaign Sticker on your car you are just as dirty and corrupt has he is Veliz weeks have passed and you have yet to make right on your decision no apology or anything. Veliz you are a waste of a vote you do not deserve to be JP you are abusing your power not only in cases such as this but by having an affair with your court administrator Elizabeth I’m ashamed to say that I voted for you in the runnoff against Benavides.
I am a close friend of the family and I have to say that it is very upsetting to see how Claudia MARTINEZ is fighting so hard to hang on to life while that drunk driver is just out there as if nothing happened. If you could only see how terrible she looks with tubes sticking out of her mouth, lungs, head and stomach. It’s enough to make a grown man dropp to his knees in tears; which is exactly what happened to close family members and friends. She had two bones from both her legs broken and sticking out of her flesh. She has about 15 to 20 sets on stitches all over her face. She has almost every part of her body bruised. It is terrible! God only knows how long she was without oxygen to her brain. If Jose Luis Flores had only stopped and rendered aid or at least called 911, help could have gotten to her sooner and maybe her outcome would have been different. As everyone knows, every second counts when something like this happens. But no, according to witnesses, he was more concerned to stop and check on the damage to his truck than the girl he almost killed. Claudia is suffering from severe brain damage. She doesn’t respond to stimuli or anything other than pain. How messed up is that? All the poor thing can feel is pain. Right now, she is in a vegetated state and doctors say that it is a probability that this is the way she will spend the rest of her life. Even so, the family is sustaining a tremendous amount of faith that GOD will pull her out of this. The family has faith that the DOCTOR of doctors (GOD) has the last word. In the mean time, her son and baby girl will have to grow up without their mother cuz she’s there but it’s like she’s not. Her baby girl has to cry herself to sleep every night because her mommy isn’t there. All she does is cry “mommy, mommy” all day long.
hello i am a family member of the victom in this case i’d like to comment and well kind of update on the victoms situation. you know that on May 31st. it was her birthday. She spent her birthday in a san antonio hospital bed with tubes left and right. She is clinging to life by a thread and all while jose luis flores sits at home. He was released on bond by Judge Veliz and all while underlooking the fact that he failed to render aid. while his birthday is coming up. he gets to celebrate along side his family and friends. He gets to laugh, get sang to, open presents, and blow out the candles. while she barely hangs on. it is an injustice to her as a victim. All because he decided to go out one night while increadibly drunk. She has very sever brain damage and with gods hands may she recoperate but as far as doctors say, this is a near inpossible wish. She may never react agian and if she so happens to she will be left will major impairments and all what at a prize of a couple of drinks and a drunk driver.