A charge has been dismissed against one of two sisters accused in the fatal hit-and-run crash last summer in Minneapolis that killed a man on a motorized scooter.
Tianna Yorahee, 19, of Minneapolis, had been charged with a felony count of aiding an offender to avoid arrest in connection with the crash on July 29, 2024, at 22nd and Fremont avenues N. Andre Zedrick Steward, 52, of Minneapolis, was killed.
Victoria Nevada Yorahee, 26, of Mesa, Ariz., pleaded guilty in May to criminal vehicular homicide and received a term of slightly more than 3½ years. She is expected to serve just shy of two years in prison and the balance on supervised release.
Tianna Yorahee “was minimally involved in the situation,” Daniel Borgertpoepping, spokesman for the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office, said Friday.
Investigators used witness accounts and surveillance video to piece together the circumstances of the crash.
Officers arrived at the scene and saw a heavily damaged SUV on top of the scooter on Fremont about a half-block south of the intersection. A severely injured Steward was on the pavement nearby. He died at North Memorial Health Hospital on Aug. 2.
Victoria Yorahee was driving with her sister and an unidentified female as passengers. After the crash, all three got out of the SUV. Victoria Yorahee removed the lone license plate from the rear of the vehicle. The two passengers threw several liquor bottles into the bushes. The women ran off while witnesses chased them.
Data from the SUV revealed that Victoria Yorahee was traveling 78 to 83 miles per hour at the time of impact.
