MINNEAPOLIS (KFGO) – A Brooklyn Park man convicted of killing five women in 2023 in Minneapolis in a high-speed crash has been sentenced to nearly 59 years in prison.
A Hennepin County District Court jury found Derrick Thompson, 32, guilty last month in the deaths of the group of friends who were preparing for a wedding at the time of the crash. Thompson was convicted of five counts of third-degree murder and 10 counts of criminal vehicular homicide.
Prosecutors say Thompson topped speeds of 100 mph while driving erratically on Interstate 35W on the night of June 16, 2023…