MANKATO, Minn. – An 18-year-old woman was charged with striking and killing a pedestrian in Mankato Monday evening, and the charges indicate she had been involved in a street race.
According to investigators, the crash happened around 8:30 p.m. The driver struck a 66-year-old man, identified as Jeffery Ward, of Mankato.
The driver, Kaylee Richmond, of Mankato, has been charged with criminal vehicular homicide.
Officers noted that the hood had been disfigured in the crash, and there was a large streak of blood on top of the vehicle.
Richmond was sobbing and hyperventilating when they found her, and she admitted to police that she had been racing another vehicle prior to the crash, saying, “The other car should be in trouble too.”
She said that she had been looking over at the other car she was racing and, when she looked back, the victim was in front of her.
Reconstruction of the crash indicated that Richmond’s vehicle had been going about 70 to 75 mph. The speed limit in that zone is 35 mph.
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