A motorist was charged Tuesday with hitting an Amish buggy in southern Minnesota while drunk, killing one of three brothers in the horse-drawn vehicle and then fleeing from the wreckage.
Connor L. Keene, 24, of Canton, Minn., was charged in Fillmore County District Court with four counts of criminal vehicular homicide in connection with the crash Friday that killed William E. Stutzman, 21, of rural Harmony, Minn.
A preliminary breath test administered to Keene at the jail a few hours after the crash measured his blood alcohol content at 0.184 percent, more than twice the legal limit for driving in Minnesota.
Keene was released from jail Tuesday and has a Sept. 24 court appearance. A message was left with his attorney seeking a response to the allegations.
Stutzman died at a hospital in La Crosse. His teenage brothers, John and Emery Stutzman, were injured. Authorities have yet to reveal their conditions.
According to the criminal complaint:
A sheriff's deputy was called to the scene about 3:45 p.m. on County Road 21 in Amherst Township, north of Henrytown, and saw several people in the ditch.
A woman identifying herself as a nurse was tending to William Stutzman, who had a head injury and was "quietly and slowly speaking in German," the charges read.