Whitey Ford
07-21-2023, 12:26 PM
17-year-old run over and killed in fight involving ex-boyfriend, Minnesota family says
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A 17-year-old girl entering her senior year of high school died after being intentionally run over in a park, Minnesota police say. Darisha Bailey Vath died at the scene following the Sunday, July 16, incident in Forest Lake, according to court records. The driver accused of striking Vath with his Mazda sedan, 20-year-old Dylan Robert Simmons, fled the scene before later returning, police say. He was charged with third-degree murder and criminal vehicular homicide, court records say.
Forest Lake police said the fatal incident stemmed from a fight involving two groups at Lakeside Veteran’s Memorial Park. People were armed with weapons that included “a baseball bat, hammers, a crowbar and a folding knife,” police said. As the fight was de-escalating, witnesses said Simmons drove in the direction of several people, nearly striking them, according to a criminal complaint. He then backed up and again drove toward the crowd, the court documents said. “This time Simmons struck (Vath) with the front passenger side of his vehicle and drove over her with both the front and rear passenger side tires of his vehicle,” police said. A video taken at the scene shows Simmons’ car lift off the ground as it struck the 17-year-old girl, a detective said in the probable cause statement. Good Samaritans — and eventually first responders — provided medical care to Vath, who died at the park, police said. Her cause of death was listed as “traumatic head injuries due to automobile-pedestrian collision,” an autopsy ruled.
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A 17-year-old girl entering her senior year of high school died after being intentionally run over in a park, Minnesota police say. Darisha Bailey Vath died at the scene following the Sunday, July 16, incident in Forest Lake, according to court records. The driver accused of striking Vath with his Mazda sedan, 20-year-old Dylan Robert Simmons, fled the scene before later returning, police say. He was charged with third-degree murder and criminal vehicular homicide, court records say.
Forest Lake police said the fatal incident stemmed from a fight involving two groups at Lakeside Veteran’s Memorial Park. People were armed with weapons that included “a baseball bat, hammers, a crowbar and a folding knife,” police said. As the fight was de-escalating, witnesses said Simmons drove in the direction of several people, nearly striking them, according to a criminal complaint. He then backed up and again drove toward the crowd, the court documents said. “This time Simmons struck (Vath) with the front passenger side of his vehicle and drove over her with both the front and rear passenger side tires of his vehicle,” police said. A video taken at the scene shows Simmons’ car lift off the ground as it struck the 17-year-old girl, a detective said in the probable cause statement. Good Samaritans — and eventually first responders — provided medical care to Vath, who died at the park, police said. Her cause of death was listed as “traumatic head injuries due to automobile-pedestrian collision,” an autopsy ruled.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article277467598.html#storylink=cpy