A 17-year-old is charged with dragging a young woman with a vehicle during a dispute in South St. Paul, causing a brain injury.

The victim’s mother reported last week that she was doing better, though “we still have a long road ahead of us,” according to a statement shared by police on her behalf.

South St. Paul officers responded at 12:13 a.m. on Nov. 17 on a report of a woman who was severely injured and who’d been dragged by a vehicle. She was unconscious in the middle of Third Avenue South, south of Southview Boulevard.

The victim’s boyfriend reported she’d gone outside to talk to someone. He heard arguing and tires squealing, saw her hanging onto the car and ran to help her.

Police were later told that the woman “met an unknown person to buy a ‘cart,'” said a juvenile petition aga

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