Five young Minnesota women returning from the mall the next day to put the finishing touches on a cousin’s wedding were fatally shot by a motorist on Friday who was traveling more than 40 miles per hour over the speed limit.
“They were preparing for their loved one’s wedding,” Khalid Omar of the Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center, where the victims were visiting, told the Star Tribune on Saturday. They were pearls of our community. You leave a big void. All five had bright futures ahead of them.”
On Friday, the five young women, ages 17 to 20, went together to a Minnesota mall to apply henna hair dye in preparation for the wedding of the three of them’s cousins the next day.
Except that the vehicle they were taking place in was caught returning to the house at almost 40 mph, over the roughly 85 mph limit, after the driver of the other car ran a red light in the attempt to flee from the police, who were already chasing him for speeding.
The five victims, Sabiriin Ali, 17, Sahra Gesaade, 20, Salma Abdikadir, 20, Sagal Hersi, 19, and Siham Adam, 19, died immediately after being thrown about fifteen meters, according to the American newspaper.
For his part, the 27-year-old driver, Derrick John Thompson, allegedly tried to flee on foot before being arrested and taken to police for alcohol and drug tests.
The man, believed to be the son of former US state Representative John Thompson, was reportedly arrested multiple times for driving with a suspended or suspended license and, according to the Star, had. Grandstand didn’t get his driver’s license until March.