GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. (DAILY REFORMER) – An influential Democratic-Farmer-Labor official in northern Minnesota has roiled the party by declining to resign as chair of Congressional District 8 despite being charged with criminal vehicular homicide.
On the evening of July 3, 2024, police in Itasca County responded to a report of a person lying in a lane of Highway 169, near Nashwauk. They found the body of 19-year-old Carter Haithcock, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
The next morning, 8th District DFL Chair Cyndy Martin called 911 and said that she may have been in a collision near Nashwauk the night before, according to the criminal complaint. She would later say she thought she hit an owl or a turkey. Pictures of her Chevy Tahoe show damage on the passenger-side front from a missing headlight to a smashed windshield. A piece of black fabric was found stuck between the hood and the frame.
Martin, who declined the Reformer’s request for comment, pleaded not guilty.
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