18-year-old is charged in the death of three in a south Minneapolis crash
The charges were filed by the
According to the criminal complaint a
Hodge sped away on
Officers abandoned the chase because "it was traveling so fast that it was getting away" but a state patrol helicopter kept the vehicle in sight, the complaint said.
"The helicopter could not even call out the locations of the cross-streets because the vehicle was traveling so fast," the police complaint said.
At times Hodge was passing vehicles along Cedar Av., driving in the wrong lane of traffic, the police report said.
Hodge T-boned a pickup truck at the intersection of Cedar Av. S. and
All five occupants of the SUV were injured. Hodge had surgery on his arm; a right rear passenger is still intubated and in critical condition; a left rear passenger suffered two fractured legs; the rear middle passenger had facial trauma; and the front seat passenger had minor injuries to his face and knee.
The police complaint said that Hodge admitted to smoking marijuana as they were driving around. He said he did not remember the crash but remembers being stuck in the vehicle. His mother, Kotrisha Brown, told the
"He's not taking what he did lightly," Brown said. "He feels really bad for the lives he has destroyed. He is willing to take responsibility for the part he played."
Hodge was booked into the
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