GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — The suspect in a high-speed, double-fatal drunken driving crash had a blood alcohol level of .097, according to court documents, prompting his bail to be quadrupled.
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 is scheduled to stand trial on February.
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.
Snulligan was in court Tuesday, as his attorney requested the $25,000 cash bond to be reduced.
When the criminal complaint was filed in July, it did not cite either a preliminary breath test or blood test results. But in court Tuesday, Asst. District Attorney Eric Enli said the blood test results were back from the crime lab, showing a BAC of .097, higher than the legal limit for .08, court records show.
While Enli’s request for a $200,000 cash bond was not granted, Judge Donald Zuidmulder did increase the bond from $25,000 to $100,000, according to a court document.
Snulligan has not posted the bond and is still listed on the jail roster as of Wednesday afternoon.
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.
