CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (CLARKSVILLENOW) – A Guthrie, Kentucky, man accused of killing two people and seriously injuring two others in a wreck on Guthrie Highway recently had more felony charges served due to four prior DUI convictions.
Miguel Ruiz Matiaz, 37, was indicted last week by the Montgomery County grand jury and charged with two counts of vehicular homicide by intoxication and resisting arrest for allegedly operating a vehicle while intoxicated and causing a wreck that killed Suthun “Foo” and Kay Subhawong and critically injured David Baker and Tina Baker, according to Matiaz’s July indictment.
This week, because of the prior DUI convictions, he was served additional charges: two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide, two counts of vehicular assault, two counts of aggravated vehicular assault and two counts of felony DUI.
Matiaz has been convicted of several DUIs, including two in Robertson County – in October 2009 and in March 2010 – one in Montgomery County in December 2010 and one in Titusville, Florida, in October 2014.
The wreck that killed the Subhawongs and injured the Bakers is his alleged 5th DUI, making the counts of vehicular homicide and vehicular assault aggravated offenses and the DUI charges felonies.
According to an article by The Leaf-Chronicle, the wreck occurred at about 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 30, 2019. The Subhawongs along with former CMCSS Schools Director David Baker and his wife, retired teacher Nina Baker, were traveling in the same car on U.S. Highway 79 near Hampton Station Road in Montgomery County when Matiaz hit the rear of the car, causing the wreck.
Suthun Subhawong, 69, sustained fatal injuries in the wreck and died. His wife, Kay Eileen Subhawong, 64, died in the hospital a week later on Oct. 7, 2019.
The Bakers were critically injured in the wreck.