GREEN BAY, Wis. – A motorist hit two pedestrians, then drove home with one of the bodies lodged in his windshield, police said. The man in the windshield died.
Police said Steve Warrichaiet was drunk when he struck the pedestrians as he returned home late Sunday.
One pedestrian was found lying on a street, critically injured, but police said the second victim remained lodged in Warrichaiet’s windshield while he drove seven blocks home and parked in his garage.
Warrichaiet’s sister, Donna Gutowski, said he called her early Monday, minutes after midnight.
“‘Now I really did it. I killed somebody. I put the body in the car,’” she recalled Warrichaiet saying. “But I didn’t believe him. He had talked nonsense before.”
She said she learned the crash really happened when an investigator came to her home.
Warrichaiet called police about 5:40 a.m. Monday, reporting that he’d been in an accident and thought he hit someone, authorities said.
Tyrone Ware, 50, of Green Bay, was pronounced dead when police arrived at Warrichaiet’s home. The second victim, a woman, was in critical condition Wednesday at St. Vincent Hospital, a nursing supervisor said.
In a similar case in 2001 in Texas, a former nurse’s aide hit a homeless man, drove home with him wedged in her windshield and then left him to bleed to death in her garage. Chante Jawan Mallard was convicted of murder and sentenced in 2003 to 50 years in prison.
Warrichaiet was charged Tuesday with homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle, hit-and-run involving death, injury by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle and hit-and-run involving great bodily harm.
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