A volunteer police chaplain is now facing multiple charges after prosecutors say he viewed a text message from his wife just prior to a hit-and-run crash in Eden Prairie.

The crash left atwo-year-old childwith life-threatening injuries and sent her mother to the hospital.

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According to the criminal complaint, the crash happened around 8:18 p.m. on Aug. 21, 2025, at the intersection of Mitchell Road and Chestnut Drive.

Police say a woman was walking across Mitchell Road in a marked crosswalk with her four children when adriver struck them and kept going.The woman was pulling some of the children in a wagon, which officers later found tipped over in the crosswalk. The two-year-old child was non-responsive at the scene, vomiting and showing signs of serious trauma, while the woman and the other children were also injured and taken to the hospital.

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Investigators say the driver did not stop or call 911. Instead, he continued on and later went to a Culver’s restaurant, where he checked damage to his vehicle. Officers recovered parts of a side mirror and plastic debris at the crash scene and quickly determined the driver involved had fled.