Derrick Thompson charged with homicide, drug and weapons counts in deadly Minneapolis crash.

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Derrick Thompson charged with homicide, drug and weapons counts in deadly Minneapolis crash.
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Derrick John Thompson, a suspect in a crash that killed five young women in Minneapolis, has been charged with 10 state counts of criminal vehicular homicide as well as federal firearms and drug charges that carry a potential sentence of life in prison. Thompson had rented a Cadillac Escalade SUV at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport only about 24 minutes before the fatal crash. Investigators recovered a Glock .40-caliber semiautomatic handgun with an extended magazine from the wreckage of the SUV, along with 2,169 fentanyl pills, a plastic bag containing 14 grams of powder fentanyl, 13 MDMA pills, 35 grams of cocaine and a digital scale. Thompson is a convicted felon and is prohibited from possessing firearms or ammunition.

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