Fox 9 was there in federal court yesterday and filed this summary of the 90-minute hearing,
- A federal court sentenced Derrick Thompson to 171 months, or about 14 years, for gun and drug crimes following a crash that killed five women in 2023.
- Thompson was already sentenced in Hennepin County Court to 59 years, and will likely spend 37 of them behind bars for crashing into five women and killing them in 2023.
- This latest sentencing is related to a handgun and drugs that were found in the vehicle Thompson was driving when he caused the crash.
You will recall the events of June 2023, when Derrick John Thompson killed 5 young Somali women with his rented Cadillac Escalade in a horror car crash near Lake Street in south Minneapolis.
He went to jury trials on separate state homicide and federal gun and drug cases. He is the son of a former DFL state representative, John Derrick Thompson.
In the federal case, prosecutors had asked for an even higher prison sentence, 30 years, with five years of that added on to his state prison sentence.