5月2日に発生した自動車事故で交際相手の女性が死亡したことを受け、ミネソタ州の男（33）が第2級過失致死罪で起訴された。アレン・マイケル・アルバーツ被告は、接近禁止命令に違反していた上、40歳のニコール・ショルツさんに対する医療支援を遅らせた疑いが持たれている。
5月2日の早朝、バーからの帰宅途中に口論となり、それが身体的な衝突に発展した。アルバーツ被告は車を路肩に寄せ、その後ショルツさんが運転を代わったが、オッターテイル郡にある二人の自宅から約800メートル離れた場所でピックアップトラックが事故を起こした。ショルツさんは車外に投げ出されて野原で発見されたが、その後死亡が確認された。
A 33-year-old Michigan man faces charges of reckless driving causing death and second-degree child abuse after striking his fiance's 3-year-old daughter with his pickup truck. Authorities say Daniel Richard Bryant was driving in a Cedar Springs mobile home park on April 3 when the girl, who was running alongside the vehicle, was killed. Bryant described the incident to deputies as the pair racing up the street.
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Douglas Proehl, a 69-year-old Wisconsin man, pleaded not guilty to charges including homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle after a January crash that killed 17-year-old Chloe Bishop and injured her father. Police reported his blood alcohol content was 0.115, more than the legal limit, and he appeared more concerned about his new truck than the victims. He remains in custody after a judge denied a bond reduction.
A 62-year-old South Carolina man faces a felony DUI charge after his truck struck and killed a 14-month-old boy who wandered into a roadway. The child had followed his father out of a restaurant near Anderson. Authorities say impairment likely slowed the driver's reaction.
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Shiann Lynn Erickson, a 24-year-old from Moorhead, Minnesota, has reached a plea deal and is set to plead guilty to second-degree murder in the 2024 death of 3-year-old Eastyn Deronjic. The child died from blunt force trauma after months of abuse while staying with Erickson and her co-defendant. Her court appearance for the change of plea is scheduled for April 7 in Clay County District Court.