A former Whitefish Bay School District associate principal has pleaded no contest to homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle in exchange for a second charge being dropped related to a drunk driving crash that killed a man in West Bend last December.
Rebecca Salomon, 52, pleaded no contest Sept. 26 in Washington County Circuit Court in West Bend to one felony count of homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle, while a second felony count of homicide by use of vehicle with a prohibited alcohol concentration was dismissed, according to online court records.
A sentencing hearing has been scheduled for 2 p.m. Dec. 15, online court records showed.
On Dec. 29, 2024, Salomon was driving home from a West Bend tavern, Lucky Shots, and didn’t stop or didn’t yield at a stop sign and crashed into another vehicle in the Town of West Bend. The man driving the other vehicle was taken by paramedics to the hospital but died of his injuries five days later, the criminal complaint said.
When questioned by police, Salomon said she had three margaritas before getting in her vehicle to head home. Along with Salomon admitting how many drinks she had, police found she had a blood alcohol level of 0.109% and arrested her, the criminal complaint said.
After investigating the crash, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office determined Salomon either failed to stop at the stop sign or failed to yield, cauing the victim’s vehicle to strike Salomon’s vehicle’s driver’s side door. Salomon was charged in February with two felonies — one count of homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle and one count of homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle with a prohibited alcohol concentration.
Salomon was an associate principal at Cumberland Elementary School and resigned March 12, according to minutes of that night’s school board meeting.
Claudia Levens contributed to this report.
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This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Former Whitefish Bay school official pleads no contest in fatal crash