A Roswell woman is set to take a binding plea deal after she was accused of fatally running over a man in 2024 while driving intoxicated.
Nya Vega, 25, was charged with homicide by vehicle and driving while intoxicated after police said she ran over Cody Williams, 68, as he crossed the street using a walker on April 15, 2024, on 2nd Street.
The four-lane road separated highway doubles as U.S. Highway 380, and has a posted speed limit of 45 mph, which police said Vega exceeded by 30 mph, according to court records.
Vega was not charged until March 25, 2026, almost two years after the crash, according to court documents.
Vega was scheduled for a change of plea hearing on Aug. 6 at Chaves County District Court. The terms of the plea deal were not yet entered into the record as of Friday.
DWI homicide by vehicle is a second-degree felony with a maximum sentence of 18 years.
The case
The crash was reported at about 7:58 p.m. in the 2200 block of West 2nd Street, Roswell Police Sgt. Michael Best wrote in a criminal complaint.
Williams was declared dead at the scene of the crash. Officers quickly found the car that allegedly crashed into him, a white Dodge Durango, at a nearby Allsups convenience store at 2nd Street and Sycamore.
After being taken to the police station, Vega submitted to a breath test for her blood-alcohol level, which came back at 0.04 and 0.03, well below the legal-per-se limit of 0.08, Best wrote.
“During the course of the on-scene investigation Affiant learned that Ms. Vega had admitted to smoking marijuana earlier in the day,” Best wrote. “Affiant was also advised that witnesses had observed the vehicle was being operated at a high rate of speed prior to the crash.”
Williams was trying to cross the street using his walker, according to a press release from the Roswell Police Department in March, following Vega’s arrest.
The nearest crosswalk to where he was it was a quarter of a mile away, across from the Allsups where Vega stopped.
Officers asked Vega to submit to a blood test, which she refused, so they got a search warrant, and her blood was drawn three hours after the crash. Those test results would come back four months later, in August 2024, and show she had THC in her system.
When Best downloaded the data from her crashed car, where the airbag deployed, he found it showed five seconds prior to the airbags deploying, it was going 82 mph. When they deployed, it was going 79 mph and the brake was never applied prior to the crash, he wrote.
The Roswell Police Department sent its investigation to the Fifth Judicial District Attorney’s Office for review after getting the blood test results back, four months following the crash. When prosecutors finished their review of the case two years later, and approval of charges, Roswell officers filed the case and arrested Vega at her home, according to the release.
