A pickup driver was drunk when he hit a man in the street and killed him near St. Cloud, according to charges filed Monday.

Tyler J. Nies, 25, was charged in Benton County District Court with criminal vehicular homicide and drunken driving in connection with the crash shortly before 11 p.m. Friday in Sauk Rapids near the intersection of N. Benton Drive and N. 8th Street, police said.

Kevin D. Oehmen, 47, of Sauk Rapids, was taken to St. Cloud Hospital where he was pronounced dead about 30 minutes later, according to police.

Nies appeared in court late Monday morning and remains jailed in lieu of $20,000 bail. Court records do not list an attorney for him. His next court appearance has not yet been scheduled.

According to the criminal complaint:

An officer at the scene noticed that Nies smelled of alcohol. Nies initially said he had one beer before driving. During a field sobriety test, he stepped off the line and turned in the wrong direction.

A preliminary breath test by the officer measured Nies' blood alcohol content at 0.129%, more than 1 1⁄2 times the legal limit in Minnesota. Upon questioning, Nies said that before driving he drank three beers, which were about 16 ounces each.

Nies told police that he was heading north on Benton Drive in the right-hand lane and suddenly saw a man walking in the grassy area next to the curb "like he was going to cross the road," the complaint read.

Police Chief Perry Beise added that Oehmen was on a street with no marked crosswalk.