Charges Filed In Hit-And-Run That Killed 4 In Western Wisconsin

Wisconsin prosecutors have filed vehicular homicide charges against a 21-year-old man who police say was inhaling chemical vapors before he crashed his truck into a group of Girl Scouts, killing three children and one adult.

The 11 charges filed Tuesday against Colten Treu include four counts of vehicular homicide and four counts of a hit-and-run resulting in death. The punishment for those charges is up to 160 years in prison.

The Saturday crash killed Jayna Kelley, 9, and Autum Helgeson, 10, both of Lake Hallie, and Haylee Hickle, 10, and her mother, Sara Jo Schneider, 32, from the Town of Lafayette.

Treu is being held on $250,000 bond. A passenger in Treu’s truck told police he grabbed the steering wheel when he saw that Treu “looked out of it.”