After about a day of deliberations, a Hennepin County jury on Friday found a Brooklyn Park man responsible for a violent crash that killed five young women as they drove along Lake Street in Minneapolis.

Jurors convicted Derrick Thompson on all of the 15 counts with which Hennepin County prosecutors charged him: 10 counts of criminal vehicular homicide and five counts of third-degree murder.

Prosecutors said that Thompson, now 29, had just rented a Cadillac Escalade at the Twin Cities airport on June 16, 2023, and was driving it northbound at more than 100 miles per hour along Interstate 35W before exiting at Lake Street. He sped through a green light at 31st Street, the first intersection past the exit, but ran a red light at Lake and slammed the three-ton SUV into the driver’s side of

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