Derrick John Thompson was charged with criminal vehicular murder in a crash which killed five young girls. He made his first appearance before the court on Friday, and bail for him was set at one million dollars.
Thompson, son of John Thompson, former Minnesota Rep. representing St. Paul East Side, did not address the court in his short time at the courtroom. There were no family members or victims of Derrick Thompson in the courtroom.
Thompson, who had broken his hip last Friday in the Minneapolis accident, was wheeled into the courtroom from the Hennepin County Jail.
Derrick John Thompson, Courtesy of the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office
Judge Carolina Lamas said Thompson was qualified to be a public advocate.
Lamas, with defense attorney Marecca vertin holding back on bail arguments, set Thompson’s bond at the $1,000,000 requested by the prosecution.
Thompson is being held in jail because he had been on parole for a California conviction. He will also likely be placed under a federal hold, because the U. S. Attorney’s Office charged him last week.
According to charges, a trooper saw Thompson speeding through a red traffic light in a sports utility vehicle at 95 mph, in a zone where the speed limit was 55 mph, before abruptly exiting Interstate 35W.
The crash killed Salma Mohammed Abdikadir (20), of St. Louis Park, Sabiriin mohamoud Ali (17), of Bloomington, Sahra Gesaade (20), of Brooklyn Center, Sagal Burhaan Hissi (19), of Minneapolis and Siham Adan Odhowa (19), of Minneapolis.
Thompson, 27, has also been charged with federal possession of fentanyl, and a gun, which were both found in the vehicle following the collision. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Minnesota made the announcement on Thursday.
Thompson was found guilty in 2020 in California for a case from 2018, in which he had fled officers in his vehicle and hit a woman. She was in a state of coma for a few weeks. Thompson is still on probation for the case.
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