MINNEAPOLIS (Court TV) — A teenager who pleaded guilty to causing a crash that killed a middle schooler was sentenced to 44 months behind bars.
Conner Iversen sits in court during his sentencing on April 15, 2026. (Court TV)
Connor Iversen, 19, pleaded guilty to a single charge of criminal vehicular homicide for the crash on Feb. 26, 2025. “I took this prison sentence to prevent any more pain on the family, or any more court dates or a trial that would have caused any more pain, as well as owning up to what happened,” Iversen said in a brief address to the court at Wednesday’s sentencing.
Investigators said that Iversen was driving a 2007 GMC Sierra at 63 mph in a 50 mph zone when he blew through a stop sign and crashed into a GMC Acadia SUV carrying a family en route to school dropoff. Detectives later determined that Iversen had been on his phone in the moments before the crash…