Driver pleads guilty to vehicular homicide after crash in Cape Coral that killed passenger
A Washington state man who crashed his car into a Cape Coral canal, leading to the death of a passenger, pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and other charges Monday.
The charges stemmed from an Oct. 5, 2020 crash. A Cape Coral police report said Kryan Anthony Montes, 25, of Washougal, Washington, was driving an Infiniti G37 north on Santa Barbara Boulevard North at a high rate of speed and continued past the dead end at Wilmington Parkway.
Police said the car entered a vacant lot, swerved right and began rotating clockwise. The car traveled sideways through the vacant lot, hit an elevated canal bank and went airborne into the canal.
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When police arrived, the car was submerged. Alex Patrick Pratt, of Cape Coral, was in the car and died at the scene.
The crash happened shortly before 1:30 a.m.
In Lee County Court Monday Montes pleaded guilty to fleeing and alluding a law enforcement officer and vehicular homicide. The state attorneys office filed no prosecution notices on charges of leaving the scene of a crash and driving under the influence.
Montes will be sentenced Jan. 10.
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This article originally appeared on Fort Myers News-Press: Kryan Montes was driving the Infiniti G37 when it crashed into a canal
