An Adams County jury convicted a man of vehicular homicide after a 2020 DUI crash left a Commerce City Police Department detective and another victim dead.
Following a three-day trial in an Adams County District Court, 49-year-old Fructuoso Rosales-Cano was convicted Thursday of two counts of vehicular homicide and two counts of driving under the influence with two-or-more priors, according to a news release from the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office.
The incident occurred on Oct. 16, 2020 when Rosales-Cano was driving his Ford F-350 westbound on Highway 2 near Turnberry Parkway in Commerce City. Rosales-Cano was speeding and passing slower cars on the highway. He then overcorrected to avoid side-swiping a barrier wall, swerving into oncoming traffic, according to the news release.
The defendant then struck the driver’s side door of Curt Holland’s vehicle. Holland was a detective with the Commerce City Police Department for four years and was on duty at the time of the crash. The defendant’s truck then rotated, tipped and crushed Francesca Dominguez’s Kia Soul.