A 20-year-old Shakopee man has been charged in connection with a rear-end crash that killed a 46-year-old Chaska woman on Highway 169.

Kala Karlene Henry died after her Chevrolet Cobalt was rammed from behind in Jackson Township around 11:40 p.m. Sunday by a GMC Acadia traveling at a "high rate of speed," according to the Minnesota State Patrol.

The GMC hit the rear driver's side of Henry's Chevrolet and pushed it into the right ditch, where it hit a culvert and rolled over," reads an incident brief.

Goay Gatluak Jikany, the GMC's driver, was charged with criminal vehicular homicide on Monday.

A criminal complaint says Jikany initially tried to blame the crash on Henry, who he claimed was "driving like crazy" and crashed into him, though it was clear he hit her.

But before that, he re

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