Kelton Snulligan appears in Brown County court, August 23, 2023. PC: Fox 11 Online
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – The suspect in a high-speed, double-fatal drunk-driving crash was ordered Wednesday to stand trial.
Kelton Snulligan, 22, waived a preliminary hearing on six counts, including two charges of homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle for the July 21 crash in Allouez. An arraignment is scheduled for Oct. 2.
Snulligan also entered a not guilty plea to a traffic ticket for ‘unreasonable and imprudent speed,’ which was also issued in association with the crash.
Snulligan, who was injured in the crash, appeared in court in a wheelchair.
Trevor Hermon — a passenger in Snulligan’s car — and Luis Rios-Alvarado — who was driving the vehicle Snulligan struck — were killed in the crash, while several others were injured.
According to the criminal complaint:
One of the passengers in the vehicle Snulligan was driving told police they had been drinking. They were concerned one of the group had alcohol poisoning, so they were headed to Bellin Hospital.
The owner of the Mercedes-Benz which Snulligan was driving was riding in the front passenger seat.
“As we approached the intersection, a small black car, like a Ford Focus, turned left from the oncoming lane across our path. They seemed to hesitate before turning. We were most likely going faster than the speed limit,” the passenger said. “I recall that we were going more likely faster than 55 MPH.”
The same passenger “described the crash and that if they had been going slower, that the vehicle which turned in front of them probably would’ve made it through the intersection,” the complaint states.
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