AURORA | A man who killed two people in an Aurora drunk-driving crash in March after drinking 12 cocktails and speeding more than 100 mph has been sentenced to two decades in prison, prosecutors said.
Joshua Lee Calhoun, 29, was sentenced Thursday, Nov. 19, to consecutive 10-year prison terms for killing Stephanie Marie Windsor and Michael Lynn Ingman in a March 10 crash on Tower Road near East 22nd Avenue in Aurora.
Calhoun had already pleaded guilty as charged to two counts of felony vehicular homicide DUI and two counts of felony vehicular homicide reckless driving.
According to Adams County prosecutors, Calhoun’s Yukon SUV crashed into the back of Windsor’s Ford Escort on Tower Road and then hit a pickup truck driven by Ingman. Windsor, 44, was following her fiancé home from the Frontier Bar and Ingman, 58, was heading to work at the King Soopers Distribution Center just a few blocks away from the crash site, prosecutors said.
In handing down the sentence, Adams County District Judge Craig Welling said Calhoun drank 12 rum and cokes that evening before taking the wheel with a blood alcohol content more than twice the legal limit.
“This is as aggravated (a) case of vehicular homicide as I have ever seen,” Welling said, according to a statement from prosecutors.
Prosecutors said Calhoun reached a top speed of 104 mph and was traveling at 88 mph at the time he plowed into Windsor’s car in a 40-mph zone.
“The catastrophic nature of the accident scene cannot be overstated,” the judge said. “It spread over 500 feet and took two lives.”
Prosecutors said when Aurora police arrived at the scene, Calhoun claimed to be a passenger in the Yukon and said the driver had left the scene.