Traffic stop in Falcon Heights leads to police chase, fatal crash
Updated: 3:10 p.m. | Posted: 7:50 p.m.
One person was killed after a police chase in Falcon Heights ended in a crash in St. Paul.
Police say an officer stopped a vehicle near Hamline and Hoyt avenues about 8 p.m. Sunday. A press release from St. Anthony police says that as an officer was approaching the vehicle on foot, the driver sped away.
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The chase lasted only about a minute. The car left the road and hit a tree near Como Park in St. Paul.
Authorities said police and emergency medical personnel attended to the vehicle's two occupants. The driver, 32-year-old Ryan James Reeves of White Bear Lake, was pronounced dead, police said.
His passenger, 24-year-old Erica Alana Wood of St. Paul, had minor injuries and was taken to a nearby hospital.
The St. Anthony Police Department, which provides police services to Falcon Heights, says it and the Minnesota State Patrol are investigating the incident.