The jury trial will start Monday after a person charged with six felony counts of murder by use of a automobile stood mute Friday in Sauk County Circuit Courtroom.
Circuit Courtroom Choose Patricia Barrett entered a not responsible plea on all 15 felony counts in opposition to the La Crosse man, which additionally included costs of damage by intoxicated use of a automobile, drunken driving with a passenger underneath 16 years outdated, driving underneath the affect of a managed substance with a passenger underneath 16 and driving with a prohibited alcohol content material with a passenger underneath 16.
Albart B. Shores, 58, appeared through video conferencing software program Zoom together with his lawyer Friday. Two members of the family of the victims additionally appeared through Zoom. Shores agreed to proceed to trial.
In accordance with the legal grievance, Shores was driving a 2002 Volkswagen Golf in late October 2018 when the automobile struck a 2009 GMC Yukon close to milepost 91 on Interstate 90/94 within the city of Delton.
A witness informed a Wisconsin State Patrol trooper that the Volkswagen got here up behind the Yukon shortly, fishtailed and swerved as if to regain management. That was when it slid into the opposite automobile.
David A. Howe, 60, of Menomonie, was the motive force of the Yukon and 56-year-old Scot Miller of Colfax was a passenger. Each have been killed within the crash.
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In accordance with data launched by Wisconsin State Patrol on the time of the collision, two different passengers of the Yukon, 56-year-old Richard P. Schoenke and 62-year-old Thomas D. Millar, have been injured within the crash.
