Truck driver who killed four on Christmas Eve pleads no contest
SIDNEY, Ohio - The truck driver who killed four Michigan residents with Livingston County ties in a Christmas Eve crash on Interstate 75 in Ohio has pleaded no contest to a single charge.
According to Sidney Municipal Court documents, Dayren Rocubert, 29, pleaded no contest Jan. 30 during a pre-trial hearing to a single count of vehicular homicide. Four additional counts of vehicular homicide were dismissed, as was a count of failure to maintain reasonable control.
Rocubert, of Hialeah, Florida, will be sentenced at 1 p.m. Feb. 13. He has been free since posting a $125,000 surety bond in December.
Rocubert, who was not seriously injured in the crash, was charged in December after killing four family members on Christmas Eve. Among those who died were Karen Marie Boehne, 33, who was pregnant, her mother Kimberly Ann Siegrist, 63; sister Lauren Marie Hahn, 32, and Karen's husband Jeremy David Ralph Boehne, 32.
Ohio officials added a fifth charge in the case because Karen Boehne was pregnant.
"It's a human tragedy, what happened. It's awful.," Rocubert's attorney Christopher Bucio said at the time. "Any time at the holidays and the inclement weather, the No. 1 fear that anybody has, is something like that and there was four people involved and I understand that there was an unborn child. No words can describe the loss and the tragedy."According to police, Rocubert's tractor-trailer was northbound on I-75 when it went through the median Dec. 24 and struck a GMC Terrain and a Ford F-150 carrying the four family members.Lauren Hahn and Karen Boehne, along with Jeremy Boehne, all were graduates of Hartland High School.Hahn graduated from Hartland High School in 2009 and went on to Madonna University in Livonia. She worked as a customer service manager at Alpha USA in Dexter.Karen and her husband Jeremy were married on June 4, 2022, and had been together for 10 years.Karen Boehne was a 2007 graduate of Hartland. She went onto attend Grand Valley State University in Allendale, completing her biomedical science degree in 2012. She worked with Opus IVS in Dexter as director of Human Resources & Recruiting.Jeremy Boehne worked in the medical gas industry.Siegrist, in addition to being the mother of Karen and Lauren, also was the mother to Amy (Jim) Ross. She also had three grandchildren.
-Staff report
This article originally appeared on Livingston Daily: Trucker pleads no contest in highway deaths of four from Livingston area
