A Mounds View woman is facing manslaughter and vehicular homicide charges after a deadly crash in Golden Valley earlier this year.
According to the criminal complaint, 40-year-old Sara Anne Persons is charged with first-degree manslaughter and two counts of criminal vehicular homicide in the May 30 incident that left a man dead.
Golden Valley police and state troopers responded just before midnight to Duluth Street near Highway 100, where they found a Ford pickup and a Chevy Trailblazer stopped on the sidewalk. Officers found 42-year-old Michael Thomas Lawver on the ground with severe injuries, including a deep abdominal laceration. Lawver was taken to a hospital but later died from his injuries.
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