Derrick Thompson is charged with 15 counts of criminal vehicular homicide and third-degree murder in a crash that killed five young women. Thompson's defense strategy is to cast doubt that prosecutors ...

Derrick Thompson is charged with 15 counts of criminal Vehicular homicide and third-degree murder. Five young women died when a Cadillac Escalade rented by Thompson slammed into their car at an ...

Thompson was found guilty to 15 counts of criminal vehicular homicide. KARE 11's Lou Raguse was in the courtroom and said it is packed with members of the Somali community. Raguse said Thompson did ...

Two years after the fact, Derrick John Thompson finally admitted Thursday that he was driving the car that killed five young women in a Minneapolis crash. His confession and plea for forgiveness in ...

Fadumo Tingle, the mother of Sahra Gesaade, speaks at the Hennepin County Government Center on Thursday, July 24, 2025, in Minneapolis, following the sentencing of Derrick Thompson to more than 58 ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man was sentenced to nearly 59 years Thursday for causing a crash that killed five young women who were out making preparations for a friend’s wedding. Derrick Thompson ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Newly released footage shows police frantically searching for the driver moments after a tragic crash killed five best friends getting ready for a wedding. It's just some of the evidence ...

MINNEAPOLIS — A lot of people might think Derrick Thompson's murder trial is an open-and-shut case. He was already convicted in a federal trial, after all. But several pretrial rulings in the case ...

Stephen Swanson is a web producer at CBS News Minnesota. Stephen was a floor director for a decade before moving to the WCCO-TV newsroom in 2011, where he focuses on general assignment reporting.

There are still no jurors seated for the trial of a man accused of causing a crash in Minneapolis that left five young women dead. Derrick Thompson, 29, is charged with several counts of third-degree ...