Cudahy man charged in fatal crash near Leon's Frozen Custard
A 35-year-old Cudahy man has been charged with second-degree reckless homicide after a fatal rollover crash that occurred Dec. 12 near Leon’s Frozen Custard in Milwaukee.
Officials say Jered Corn was the driver in the fatal crash that killed his sister, passenger Sierra R. Hill, 22, of Cudahy.
According to the criminal complaint, on Dec. 12 at 9:32 p.m. Milwaukee Police Department officers responded to a rollover crash that happened at the intersection of South 27th Street and West Oklahoma Avenue.
A police sergeant observed an SUV on its side in the parking lot of Leon's Custard. Corn and Hill were both inside the vehicle and had to be extricated. Corn was transported to Froedtert Hospital while Hill sustained fatal injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene by the Milwaukee Medical Examiner's office.
In video obtained of the crash, police say, a driver is seen speeding through a red light and crashing into a second vehicle. The collision sent one vehicle crashing into a parked car and the other into a concrete pole, which fell over and damaged a second parked vehicle, according to the criminal complaint.
An analysis of the Airbag Control Module in the SUV showed Corn was driving approximately 74 mph in a 35 mph zone. Open intoxicants were found in the vehicle, police said.
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation also revealed that Corn was driving with a suspended driver's license, according to the criminal complaint.
Besides reckless homicide, which carries a penalty of up to 25 years in prison, Corn is also charged with knowingly operating a vehicle without a valid license causing death and two counts of second-degree reckless endangerment.
Corn is due back in court on Dec. 26 for a preliminary hearing.
From 2008 to 2012, Milwaukee had an average of 39 traffic deaths a year. That average has since increased 86%, according to an analysis by Robert Schneider, a professor of urban planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
The city had about 72 deaths per year from 2018 through 2022, according to the analysis.
Contact Adrienne Davis at amdavis@gannett.com. Follow her on X at @AdriReportss
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Elliot Hughes contributed to this report.
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