An Adams County jury convicted a man of vehicular homicide after a 2020 DUI crash left a Commerce City Police Department detective and another victim dead.
Following a three-day trial in an Adams County District Court, 49-year-old Fructuoso Rosales-Cano was convicted Thursday of two counts of vehicular homicide and two counts of driving under the influence with two-or-more priors, according to a news release from the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office.
The incident occurred on Oct. 16, 2020 when Rosales-Cano was driving his Ford F-350 westbound on Highway 2 near Turnberry Parkway in Commerce City. Rosales-Cano was speeding and passing slower cars on the highway. He then overcorrected to avoid side-swiping a barrier wall, swerving into oncoming traffic, according to the news release…