A man whose vehicle struck and killed a UW-Madison graduate student last weekend was driving with nearly twice the legal amount of alcohol in his blood, and had a packet of methamphetamine in his jacket pocket, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday.
Kong Vang, 32, of Madison, was charged Thursday with homicide by drunken driving for the April 15 death of Wenxin “Wendy” Huai, 22, who was struck as she walked on a sidewalk on South Park Street near West Washington Avenue. Assistant District Attorney William Brown said, as Vang appeared in court Thursday, that police have pictures of Vang drinking in the vehicle earlier that day.
“Upon searching his cellphone after the crash, police located pictures of him and other people in that car drinking earlier that day while they were driving, we believe up in Mauston,” Brown said.
Vang was charged with homicide by drunken driving and homicide by driving with a prohibited alcohol concentration for Huai’s death. He was also charged with three counts of second-degree reckless endangerment, possession of methamphetamine, second-offense drunken driving and second-offense driving with a prohibited alcohol concentration.