Police Seek Charges for Boyfriend of Yale Student Killed in Crash

(NEW HAVEN, Conn.) -- Police are seeking criminal charges against the boyfriend of Marina Keegan, the Yale graduate who died in a rollover crash while the young man was behind the wheel. Her death gained national attention when her inspirational posthumous final newspaper column, The Opposite Of Loneliness, went viral.

Keegan’s boyfriend, Michael Gocksch, has been summoned to Orleans District Court in Massachusetts on July 5, where a clerk will review charges of vehicular homicide by reckless operation and reckless driving. If probable cause is found, a criminal complaint will be filed against Gocksch, who had reportedly fallen asleep behind the wheel.

The couple, both 22, had just graduated from Yale days before the car accident. On May 26, with Gocksch in the driver’s seat, the couple was en route to the Keegans’ summer house in Wellfleet, Mass., when he lost control of the car. The Lexus hit a guard rail, spun across the road to hit the opposite guard rail, then rolled over twice.

Gocksch was uninjured, but Keegan died at the scene.

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