A Minnesota man convicted and sentenced in a 2023 high-speed crash that killed five young women will serve even more time in prison, a judge ruled this week.
Derrick Thompson, 29, was convicted in July of five counts of third-degree murder and 10 counts of criminal vehicular homicide for a crash that killed five young women.
The crash occurred on the night of June 16, 2023, on Interstate 35W in south Minneapolis. A state trooper testified they were following Thompson without emergency lights activated and saw him speed off onto East Lake Street, where he struck and instantly killed the five women, court documents show…