The man accused of vehicular homicide in the crash that killed an on-duty Golden Police Department officer plans on entering a plea deal next month.

Forty-three-year-old Stephen Geer, currently out on a $250,000 bond, stood before First Judicial District Judge Russell Klein on Monday, wearing a gray suit and standing next to his defense attorney, Megan Downing. He pleaded not guilty to the bevy of charges filed against him.

With the not-guilty pleas, Geer is preparing to accept a plea deal, but the deal had just been presented to Downing last week, Downing told the court. Geer and his defense team are planning on coming to a resolution without a jury trial.

Monday was the third time Greer’s arraignment date has been pushed back, with previous dates on April 28 and June 23. Both hearings resulted in the defense and prosecution asking for more time for negotiations and conversations with victims.

Geer was officially charged by the district attorney’s office on Nov. 14 in connection to the Nov. 6 crash.

The charges are:

• One count of vehicular homicide, a class 3 felony
• Two counts of vehicular assault, a class 4 felony
• One count of third-degree assault, a misdemeanor
• One count of driving under the influence, a misdemeanor

Geer allegedly crashed into a vehicle parked at another crash on Highway 58 around 5 p.m., pushing the parked vehicle into two officers and killing 33-year-old Ofc. Evan Dunn — the first on-duty death of an officer in the history of the GPD.

Dunn and another officer, Bethany Grusing, were pinned under the vehicle during the crash.

Dunn died on impact and Grusing sustained a cheekbone injury. The two drivers who were involved in the earlier crash were also injured. Both were thrown by the impact and one sustained a skull fracture and brain bleed, according to arrest documents.

Grusing has since returned to work with the department. 

Geer refused a blood and breathalyzer test at the scene, prosecutor Alexa Visscher said at a previous hearing, but Geer’s blood alcohol concentration came back at a .168 at the hospital, according to prosecutor Brian Domingues at another hearing.

Domingues said there was there was evidence to show five transactions at Denver and Golden liquor stores on the day of the crash.

Prior to the crash, the defendant was a Colorado School of Mines mechanical engineering professor. His name was still listed on the school’s website as a teaching assistant professor until June. 

Geer is set for a pretrial hearing on Sept. 2, where the plea deal will likely be announced. No details about the proposed agreement were revealed.