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Crime, Law and Justice
Peter Cox

Police arrest suspected driver in Minneapolis car crash that killed two

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A 38-year-old woman has been arrested in connection to a car crash that killed two people and injured three others Monday morning in Minneapolis.

Minneapolis police say a car driving north on Emerson Avenue N. struck another vehicle heading east on 26th Avenue N. The car that was struck veered off the road and into a bus shelter, where it hit a 17-year-old boy who was waiting for the bus to school.

The suspected driver of the northbound car was arrested on suspicion of criminal vehicular homicide and is being held at the Hennepin County jail. Police say she was booked after being released from the hospital.

The two women in the eastbound vehicle, identified by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner, were 53-year-old Esther Jean Fulks, who died at the scene of the crash, and 57-year-old Rose Elaine Reece, who died after being transported to North Memorial Hospital.   

Police said the teenager was taken to Hennepin Healthcare hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.

The two people in the vehicle that hit the other, including the 38-year-old driver, were also hospitalized with potentially life-threatening injuries.

The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office will decide whether or not to file criminal charges. MPR News typically does not name suspects unless they are charged with a crime.

A vigil service for Fulks and Reece will be held at the site of the crash on Sunday, Dec. 22 at 1 p.m.