Officials are disclosing for the first time that a two-vehicle crash more than two months ago in south Minneapolis killed a 12-year-old boy.
The collision involving a car and an SUV occurred shortly after 7 p.m. on May 11 at the intersection of E. 36th Street and 2nd Avenue S., police said.
On Monday, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office released the victim’s identity as Jordan Jahir Urbano Padilla of Minneapolis and said he died May 14 at HCMC after the SUV sent the car he was riding in into a tree.
Neither the medical examiner’s office nor police have explained why 10 weeks passed before the death was publicly acknowledged and the victim’s identity released.
On Thursday, police filed a search-warrant affidavit to get court approval to collect data from the SUV. The filing said traffic surveillance video showed the SUV’s driver, 85-year-old Desineni Naidu of Minneapolis, went through “an obvious” red light and struck the car.
The SUV went on to hit a house, while the car struck a tree, the filing continued.
“The [car’s] passenger side door was completely caved into the seat where a juvenile passenger was sitting,” the filing read. The boy died a few days later.
A second boy, age not disclosed, was also in the car. He was briefly evaluated at the scene for injuries and not hospitalized, police said one day after the crash. Police have not said who was driving the car.
