A MAN ACCUSED OF KILLING A WELL-KNOWN ALBUQUERQUE HOMEBUILDER IN A DRUNK DRIVING CRASH SUNDAY IS ALREADY OUT OF JAIL. TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD COULTER COOK MADE HIS FIRST COURT APPEARANCE ON MONDAY TO BE ARRAIGNED. A JUDGE SET HIS BOND AT 100-THOUSAND DOLLARS. COOK BONDED OUT OF JAIL.
COOK WAS ALLEGEDLY DRUNK WHEN HE STRUCK AND KILLED PROMINENT HOMEBUILDER REED RUTLEDGE ON SUNDAY, WHO WAS RIDING HIS BIKE INSIDE THE GATED TANOAN COMMUNITY. COOK IS CHARGED WITH VEHICULAR HOMICIDE. HE IS ALSO A TANOAN RESIDENT.
