DARLINGTON - A Shullsburg man is charged with causing the death of his girlfriend by driving drunk and crashing her car in August 2011.
Kyle Lee Monahan, 22, has an initial appearance Sept. 24 on three felony homicide charges filed last month in Lafayette County Circuit Court.
All three charges are related to the death of 21-year-old Rebecca Lynn Cushman.
According to court records, Monahan was driving Cushman's 2001 Saab station wagon on Dunbarton Road east of Shullsburg at about 8 p.m. Aug. 20, 2011, when he lost control of the vehicle and it crashed.
He told an officer on scene they'd been drinking at the Wheel Inn in Shullsburg. Neither he or Cushman were wearing seatbelts. The car rolled over numerous times, ejecting both.
Cushman, of Rumford, Maine, was pronounced dead at an area hospital. According to her obituary in the Portland (Maine) Press Herald, she was working as a nanny in Chicago.
Monahan was also seriously injured in the crash and transferred to a Rockford hospital.
State court records indicate Monahan was convicted of driving drunk in June 2010 and January 2011. He has about a dozen other traffic offenses on his record but no prior criminal record.
Kyle Lee Monahan, 22, has an initial appearance Sept. 24 on three felony homicide charges filed last month in Lafayette County Circuit Court.
All three charges are related to the death of 21-year-old Rebecca Lynn Cushman.
According to court records, Monahan was driving Cushman's 2001 Saab station wagon on Dunbarton Road east of Shullsburg at about 8 p.m. Aug. 20, 2011, when he lost control of the vehicle and it crashed.
He told an officer on scene they'd been drinking at the Wheel Inn in Shullsburg. Neither he or Cushman were wearing seatbelts. The car rolled over numerous times, ejecting both.
Cushman, of Rumford, Maine, was pronounced dead at an area hospital. According to her obituary in the Portland (Maine) Press Herald, she was working as a nanny in Chicago.
Monahan was also seriously injured in the crash and transferred to a Rockford hospital.
State court records indicate Monahan was convicted of driving drunk in June 2010 and January 2011. He has about a dozen other traffic offenses on his record but no prior criminal record.