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A Dane County court commissioner denied a motion to lower the bond set for the woman accused of killing a man and his dog when she hit him with her car.

"It is without question he should have known that he hit a person," a Dane County prosecutor said in court Friday.

A Muskego man whose truck smashed into a car stopped in a traffic backup received five years of probation with a year of it in jail.

The crash, which killed a 37-year-old Madison man, happened on April 3, 2021, on East Washington Avenue at Mendota Street.

"At some point I have to draw a line," a judge told Shawnicia Youmas, who pleaded guilty in August to a negligent homicide charge.

The crash on Madisons Far West Side last year caused the death of a man who was riding his bike to work.

"Im so sorry, Mom, and my family and friends, Im sorry," Thomas Monson said in court Tuesday.

Okima Jones had been charged with homicide by drunken driving, but pleaded guilty Tuesday to homicide by negligent driving.

Okima Jones had been charged with homicide by drunken driving, but pleaded guilty Tuesday to homicide by negligent driving.