Kelton Snulligan. PC: Fox 11 Online
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — The trial has been delayed for the suspect in a high-speed, double-fatal drunken driving crash.
Kelton Snulligan, 22, faces 16 charges, including two charges of homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle for the July 21 crash in Allouez. He has pleaded not guilty.
Snulligan’s trial was scheduled to start Feb. 26. However, the defense asked for delay to give it more time to review the evidence and perhaps hire experts. A May 6 trial was scheduled at a hearing Friday.
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.
Snulligan’s blood alcohol level was .097, higher than the .08 limit.
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