St. Paul, MN (MinnesotaNow) – A guilty plea was entered today by a St. Paul man who was accused of causing a deadly crash last fall while he was impaired and speeding at around 100 mph.
According to court records, 30-year-old Talon Covie-Cardwell Walker was driving a pickup when he sideswiped an SUV on an exit ramp from I-94 in Minneapolis and then smashed into the back of another vehicle. Witnesses told the State Patrol that the pickup was going approximately 100 mph at the time of the crash.
The collision triggered a pileup on the exit ramp involving a total of five other vehicles and resulted in the death of the driver of the vehicle that was rear-ended by Walker’s pickup. She was identified as 26-year-old Natalie Gubbay of Minneapolis. The criminal complaint says Walker and several other occupants of the vehicles were transported to the hospital with serious injuries.
The court document also states that State Troopers located an open and partially full bottle of liquor on the driver’s side floorboard in Walker’s pickup. It also notes that Walker previously had his driver’s license revoked in 2021 under Minnesota’s Implied Consent law.
According to the criminal complaint, investigators later spoke with a woman who was a passenger in Walker’s vehicle. She stated that Walker had smoked a large amount of marijuana prior to getting behind the wheel. She also told investigators that after he went upstairs in his cousin’s home, he came back down and appeared “zoned out” and clearly under the influence of a controlled substance…