UPDATE — September 30, 2026: Victims identified
Minneapolis police have released the names of the victims in the September 29 crash. According to MPD PIO Sgt. Garrett Parten, the two identified people who died at the scene were Shiya Talise Sargent and Calvin Robert Wolfe; a third male has not yet been identified. The four people injured and hospitalized were identified as Amon Dixon, Da'Zarion Easton, Javier Flores, and Zamia Moore. Parten said ages are being withheld under the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act (Minn. Stat. § 13.82).
UPDATE (Sept. 29): Minneapolis police have released more information on the crash. According to MPD's public information release, the vehicle was a stolen Hyundai Elantra traveling west on Southeast 4th Street when it struck the trailer of a tractor-trailer traveling south on the I-35W exit ramp and crossing SE 4th Street. The Elantra became lodged beneath the trailer; both vehicles came to a stop on Ninth Avenue SE between SE 4th Street and University Avenue SE.
Two males in the front seats and a female in the rear seat died at the scene. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office will release their identities. Minneapolis firefighters extricated four other passengers from the rear seat — two 18-year-old men, a 17-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy — and ambulances transported them to Hennepin Healthcare with potentially life-threatening injuries.
Investigators believe the stolen vehicle's speed contributed to the crash. The semi driver was not injured and cooperated with officers. The southbound I-35W exit to SE 4th Street and Ninth Avenue SE were closed for several hours. MPD says it is investigating the sequence of events that led to the crash. (Incident 26-282263.)
MINNEAPOLIS — Three people were killed and four others were hospitalized early Tuesday morning after a car carrying seven people crashed into a semitrailer near Interstate 35W in southeast Minneapolis, police said.
The crash happened around 4:10 a.m. near Southeast 4th Street and the I-35W exit, just west of the University of Minnesota campus, according to Minneapolis police. Police said the passenger vehicle struck a semitrailer that was exiting southbound I-35W and crossing Southeast 4th Street. The impact left the car wedged underneath the trailer.
Three occupants of the car died at the scene, authorities said. Four others were taken to a hospital for treatment. Police had not released the identities of those killed or the conditions of the four injured as of Tuesday morning.
The driver of the semitrailer was not injured, police said.
Minneapolis police traffic investigators are investigating what led to the collision. No official cause had been determined as of Tuesday morning.
NCN Media has reached out to the Minneapolis Police Department for additional information. This is a developing story.
- National Correspondent Network
