4 Wisc. Siblings Killed in Wrong-Way Crash Allegedly Caused by Drunk Driver Who Had Open Bottle of Vodka

Police said the driver, Scott Farmer, has four prior convictions for operating a vehicle while intoxicated

Just days before Christmas, a Wisconsin family is reeling after a suspected drunk driver allegedly crashed head-on into their family’s vehicle and killed four siblings, say authorities.

The Waupaca County Sheriff's Office identified the victims as driver Daniel Gonzalez, 25, his brother Fabian Gonzalez, 23, and their younger sisters, Lilian Gonzalez, 14, and Daniela Gonzalez, 9.

Lilian was a freshman in high school and one day wanted to become a teacher, while Daniela was in fourth grade and wanted to become a cheerleader, the girls’ mother Paulina told local WLUK. Daniel and Fabian, whose family said both loved music, worked together on the same shift schedule and often spent much of every day with each other, Paulina said.

In a criminal complaint, the sheriff’s office alleged Scott Farmer, 47, was driving his pick-up truck the wrong way down Highway 10 in Waupaca County shortly after 9 p.m. last Saturday night when he crashed “head-on” with an SUV carrying the four siblings.

The Gonzalez family told WLUK the siblings were only about three miles from returning home after going out together.

“All were beyond lifesaving measures and were pronounced deceased at the scene,” the first responding officer, Waupaca County Capt. Todd G. Rasmussen, wrote in a criminal complaint reviewed by PEOPLE.

Shelby Strahl, a driver who stopped along the road immediately after the crash, told WLUK that it was “heart wrenching” when she found out all the victims were siblings.

“We just wanted to hug everybody and offer our condolences and let them know that we were there holding their hands whether they were helped or not,” Strahl told the outlet, choking up.

Farmer faces four charges of homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle and has remained in custody since early Sunday morning, according to the latest Waupaca County jail records. It's not immediately clear if he has entered a plea or retained an attorney.

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Farmer had four prior convictions for operating a vehicle while intoxicated, according to the criminal complaint. Capt. Rasmussen alleged that he found an open bottle of vodka next to Farmer when he went to check on him after the crash and that Farmer allegedly told officers he believed he had “just spun out” and “didn’t hit anybody.”

“His speech was incoherent at times and his sentences would trail off so I could not understand them,” Capt. Rasmussen alleged, adding that Farmer would not listen to him and at one point tried to crawl over to the passenger side of the truck. The criminal complaint also alleged that Farmer became irritated and “was threatening to fight” firefighters who were trying to get him out of his truck.

When he finally calmed down and officers questioned him, Farmer allegedly believed it was Feb. 12 when they asked him what day it was. He also admitted he drank “a lot” before the crash, the complaint alleges.

A judge ultimately set Farmer’s bail at $750,000 despite prosecutor Veronica Isherwood requesting it be set at $4 million — $1 million for each Gonzalez family member killed in the crash, Local Fox 6 reported on Tuesday.

"$750,000 after killing four beautiful people’s lives, our children. Where’s the justice in that?" the stepfather of the siblings, Kurt Schilling, told WLUK.

Luis Gonzalez-Quizhpe, the four siblings’ cousin, said in a GoFundMe post that he believed the bond amount was “an injustice.”

“My cousins’ life was invaluable. It was priceless,” the siblings’ cousin said. “But $750,000 is really an injustice in itself and also an insult to my family because their lives were not worth that little. There will never be an amount that ever reaches the value that my cousins had within our family and within our community.”

Multiple GoFundMe pages have been set up to help the Gonzalez family cover funeral expenses, raising more than $132,000 collectively so far. Gonzalez-Quizhpe said his family is planning to hold a funeral in Wisconsin before traveling to their mother Paulina’s native Ecuador for burials.

Schilling told WLUK he “cannot express” what his stepchildren meant to him.

"All I would say is that he and all people who might drink for many bad reasons, to excess, or other drugs, would be responsible and think of others, because you really destroyed our lives," Schilling said.

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