NEWS RELEASE
November 19, 2015
Contact: Sue Lindsay
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Man Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison in Double Vehicular Homicide
Joshua Lee Calhoun was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday for vehicular homicide in the violent three-vehicle crash in Aurora last March that claimed the lives of Stephanie Marie Windsor and Michael Lynn Ingman.
Calhoun (DOB 08/08/86) pleaded guilty as charged to two counts of vehicular homicide DUI (F3) and two counts of vehicular homicide reckless driving (F4).
Adams County District Judge Craig Welling sentenced Calhoun to two 10-year prison terms on the vehicular homicide DUI charges to be served consecutively for a total of 20 years in prison. He imposed six-year prison terms on the vehicular homicide reckless driving charges to be served concurrently with the 20-year prison term.
Calhoun’s Yukon SUV crashed into the back of Windsor’s Ford Escort on Tower Road at 22nd Avenue in Aurora in the early morning hours of March 10 and then hit a pickup truck driven by Ingman. Windsor, 44, and Ingman, 58, were both killed. Windsor was following her fiance home from the Frontier Bar, where they had encountered Calhoun. Ingman was heading to work at the King Soopers Distribution Center just a few blocks away from the crash site.
Windsor’s family told the judge that their lives had been devastated by her death. Ingman had been living with his 90-year-old father, a World War II veteran, and was his primary caregiver, family said.
“This is as aggravated case of vehicular homicide as I have ever seen,” Welling said. “The victims died a violent and horrific death.” He said Calhoun had consumed 12 rum and cokes that evening before taking the wheel with a blood alcohol content more than twice the legal limit. Calhoun reached a top speed of 104 mph and was traveling at 88 mph at the time he plowed into Windsor’s car. The posted speed limit was 40 mph. “The catastrophic nature of the accident scene cannot be overstated,” the judge said. “It spread over 500 feet and took two lives.”
When police arrived at the scene, Calhoun claimed to be a passenger in the Yukon and said the driver had left the scene.
“This is a tragic case. The facts of this case are extremely aggravated,” District Attorney Dave Young said. “We are grateful for the sentence that will keep this man behind bars for many years. Although nothing can bring back the victims whose lives were tragically lost because of the defendant’s senseless actions, I hope that the families can take some comfort in knowing that justice was obtained for Stephanie Windsor and Michael Ingman.”
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