According to ESPN, Nuggets forward and the brother of Denver Pioneers’ Coban Porter, Michael Porter Jr. was arrested on Sunday in Denver in connection with a fatal crash.
According to the Police;
Coban Porter, 21, was arrested on suspicion of vehicular homicide and reckless driving, police spokesman Kurt Barnes told The Denver Post. The two-car crash happened at about 1:54 a.m. One driver died at the scene, according to police.
Michael Porter Jr. was not involved in the crash, the Nuggets confirmed to the Post. He was ruled out for Sunday’s 101-99 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder due to personal reasons.
Coban Porter had been rehabbing from a torn ACL he suffered this offseason. He averaged 11.4 points in 28 games as a freshman last season.
Porter has seven siblings, including Michael and Jontay Porter, who played for the Memphis Grizzlies last season.
Here is what happened during the accident.
Denver police allege Coban Porter was driving at about 50 mph headed east on East Buchtel Boulevard when he ran a red light at South University Boulevard and crashed into a driver who was headed north on University, according to the affidavit.
The other driver, who has not been publicly identified, died at the scene, and a passenger in that vehicle was seriously injured, police allege in the affidavit, which was obtained by The Denver Post on Monday. The posted speed limit at that intersection, which is close to the University of Denver’s campus, is 30 mph.
Coban Porter had “bloodshot and watery eyes, slurred and mumbling speech, and the strong odor of an alcoholic beverage on his breath,” Corporal Aaron Botts wrote in the partially redacted affidavit. “He also had a ‘Bud Light’ paper wristband on his left wrist.”
Investigators drew Coban Porter’s blood to test his blood-alcohol levels; those results are pending, Botts wrote.
Let’s hope Michael Porter Jr. gets out of this.
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