A 29-year-old man will spend 20 years in prison after killing two people in a violent, three-car crash in Aurora.
Joshua Lee Calhoun pleaded guilty Thursday in Adams County District Court to two counts of vehicular homicide DUI and two counts of vehicular homicide reckless driving.
Stephanie Marie Windsor, 44, and Michael Lynn Ingman, 58, were killed in the .
During the hearing, Windsor’s family said they had been devastated by her death, a news release form the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office said. Ingman lived with his 90-year-old father, a World War II veteran, and was his primary caregiver, the release said.
Calhoun was driving a GMC Yukon on Tower Road at 22nd Avenue in Aurora during the early morning hours. He first slammed into the back of Windsor’s Ford Escort and then hit Ingman’s pickup truck.
Windsor had been following her fiance home from the Frontier Bar when the accident happened. Ingman was driving to work at the King Soopers Distribution Center, which was a few blocks from the accident scene.
Calhoun drank 12 rum and Cokes before the accident, and his blood-alcohol level tested more than twice the legal limit, the news release said.
Calhoun had reached a top speed of 140 miles per hour and was traveling at 88 miles per hour when he plowed into Windsor’s car.
Adams County District Judge Craig Welling said during the hearing that the crash was among the most aggravated cases of vehicular homicide he had seen.
“The catastrophic nature of the accident scene cannot be overstated,” Welling was quoted as saying in the news release. “It spread over 500 feet and took two lives.”
Noelle Phillips: 303-954-1661, nphillips@denverpost.com or @Noelle_Phillips
