An Aurora man convicted of killing a mother and 6-year-old daughter while driving drunk in 2022 was sentenced Wednesday to 52 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections, according to court records.
Juan Pablo Pascual-Licea was found guilty of six felony charges on Dec. 7, 2023 — two counts of vehicular homicide, two counts of vehicular assault, child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury and child abuse resulting in death. He was sentenced in Arapahoe County Court to 52 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections with credit for almost two years of time already served and over $2,000 in fines, according to court records.
He received concurrent sentences of 32 years behind bars for child abuse resulting in death, 12 years for vehicular homicide and 6 years for vehicular assault. A consecutive sentence of 20 years for child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury brings his sentence to 52 years.
Pascual-Licea was arrested on April 8, 2022, after he crashed into an SUV carrying a family of four near South Chambers Road and East Sixth Avenue, according to previous reporting by the Denver Post. The family was on their way home from the daughter’s birthday party.
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Mira Watson, 6, and her mother Maggie (Megan) Schultz Watson, 41, were pronounced dead at a hospital, according to the Arapahoe County Coroner. The father and 10-year-old boy were injured in the crash, but survived.
Pascual-Licea was driving more than 80 mph the wrong way down South Chambers Road and had previously hit a bicyclist when the crash occurred, according to the 18th District Attorney’s Office. His blood alcohol content was more than twice the legal limit.
Pascual-Licea’s review hearing is scheduled for Aug.12.
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