Skidmore charged with homicide in 2017 fatal crash

William Joseph Skidmore was in the Hill County Detention Center this morning facing a felony charge of vehicular homicide while under the influence stemming from an Aug. 15, 2017, crash near the Havre cemetery that killed Jason Skidmore.

William Skidmore was charged Friday after new evidence processed this month proved a woman he said was driving the car at the time of the crash could not have been the driver.

Skidmore was arrested Tuesday and was being held this morning on the vehicular homicide charge on a $50,000 bond.

He is scheduled for an arraignment hearing, in which defendants usually...