The selection of the jury today begins for the man who is accused of causing accidents in which five women were killed

(KNSI)-The selection of the jury today began to have killed five women in a devastating high-speed accident in June 2023 for a man from Minneapolis.

Derrick John Thompson is charged with ten charges for murder of criminal vehicle and five murder cases of third degrees. The public prosecutor said that he drove 95 miles an hour on a Minneapolis road after he had expired the Interstate 35W when he hit another car and killed all five young women inside. They were at the age of 17 to 20 years old and had just left the Carmel Mall, where they had done Henna for a friend's wedding.

According to court files, a state forces sat in the I-35W and 46th Street when he discovered a Cadillac Escalade that came by. His radar tacted it at 95 miles per hour. Thompson wrapped through the left Lane before suddenly cycling through the Lake Street. He went so quickly that the soldier could not even turn on his lights and sirens to pull him.

After the crash, witnesses called near 911 and said Thompson had fled the scene. The police found him sitting in restaurants in front of a parking lot, bleeding on a cut on his forehead, had blood on his hands and clothes, and he sweated it hard. When the officials asked what had happened to him, Thompson said for the first time that he cut himself and it was an old cut. When they pressed him because the injuries looked fresh, he changed his story and said that he used to “like” that night.

When the investigators searched Thompson's destroyed SUV, they discovered a charged Glock gun with an extended magazine, more than 2,000 fentanyl pills, 14 grams of powder fetanyl, 13 MDMA pills, 35 grams of cocaine and a digital scale. Since Thompson has a crime record, he must not have weapons.

This is not Thompson's first fatal crash. In 2018 he hit someone when he ran to the police in front of the police in California and left his victim in a coma for months with a traumatic brain injury. Thompson also ran from this crash. The police found 17 pounds of marijuana and $ 20,000 in his car. He was finally caught in St. Paul, owed himself guilty and confessed in prison for eight years, but was released early.

He was already sentenced to a federal court in connection with the crash for weapons and drug accusations. In addition to the murder and vehicle murder counts, a potential lifelong prison sentence due to federal costs is now faced.

The accused is the son of the former state representative John Thompson. Attempts to contact the Ministry of Public Security in Minnesota, as Thompson received a driver's license in Minnesota, was unsuccessful.

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