Steve Warrichaiet

When a person drives drunk, it's akin to that person pulling out a gun and firing into a crowd.

GREEN BAY -- Police say a 40-year-old Green Bay driver was drunk when he struck two pedestrians — a man and woman — on the city’s east side just before midnight Sunday, then drove about seven blocks home with the man’s body lodged in his windshield.

The driver, Steve Warrichaiet, parked his 1995 Dodge Intrepid in the garage at his home at 2128 Eastman Ave., then called police about six hours later, saying he had been involved in an accident and believed he had hit someone.

Warrichaiet was arrested soon afterward. Police are seeking charges of homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle, drunken driving, causing injury while driving drunk, hit-and-run causing death, hit-and-run causing injury and hiding a corpse.

Police initially were called at 11:57 p.m. to the 1000 block of Elizabeth Street for a report of a crash.

They found a 41-year-old woman lying in the street. She was taken to a local hospital and reported in serious condition.

At 5:42 a.m. Monday, the police received the call from Warrichaiet. The 50-year-old man lodged in Warrichaiet’s windshield was pronounced dead at the Eastman Avenue scene. An autopsy on the 50-year-old was performed Monday, but the results were not released.

...Warrichaiet is expected to appear Tuesday in Brown County Circuit Court. He has no prior court record, according to a search of state records online.

There are significant differences, but Warrichaiet's case reminds of the Chante Mallard story.

Unlike Mallard and to Warrichaiet's credit (if it's fair to say that he deserves any credit whatsoever), he was the one who called the police, albeit hours too late.

Although it's possible, I can't imagine that this was the first time that Warrichaiet drove while impaired.

If driving drunk was a habit with him, it's a tragic turn of events that he had to kill someone and injure another before he was caught and taken off the road.

Warrichaiet's future doesn't look too bright if his trial goes the way Mallard's did.

A jury sentenced "Mallard to 50 years in prison for murder and an additional 10 for tampering with evidence. She will serve her sentences concurrently, giving her a total of 50 years in jail. Mallard will be eligible for parole after serving 25 years."

The danger of drunk driving can't be underestimated.