An Aurora man has been charged with reckless homicide after a passenger in his vehicle died during a crash in the city, officials said.
Gustavo Gutierrez-Aguilar, 35, of the first block of Margarets Lane, has also been charged with multiple counts of aggravated driving under the influence, Aurora police said in a news release.
Aurora police officers were dispatched at 6:15 p.m. Sunday to Mountain Street and Austin Avenue on the city’s East Side for a single-vehicle crash. Officers found a car crashed into a tree and saw the driver, Gutierrez-Aguilar, outside the car, struggling to walk and maintain his balance, police said.
The responding officer said he could smell a strong odor of alcohol from Gutierrez-Aguilar’s breath, police said. Gutierrez-Aguilar was later found to have a blood alcohol level more than twice the legal limit, police said.
The passenger in the vehicle, Lazaro Rosas-Garcia, 29, was still inside the car, but was unconscious and not breathing, officials said. Paramedics responded to the scene and transported Gutierrez-Aguilar and Rosas-Garcia to the hospital. Rosas-Garcia, of the 1000 block of Rainwood Drive, was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at the hospital, police said.
Gutierrez-Aguilar was treated at a local hospital for his injuries and taken into custody upon his release. His bail was set at $500,000 and he remains in the Kane County jail, according to jail records.
He is due back in court Dec. 17.
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