Two women have been charged and remain fugitives Tuesday after one of them speeding in an SUV hit and killed a man on a motorized scooter in north Minneapolis in late July, according to charges.
Victoria Nevada Yorahee, 25, of Mesa, Ariz., was charged Friday in Hennepin County District Court with two counts of criminal vehicular homicide in connection with the crash on July 29 at the intersection of Fremont and 22nd avenues N. that injured 52-year-old Andre Zedrick Steward, of Minneapolis. He died on Aug. 2.
Also charged Friday was Tianna Renee Yorahee, 18, of Minneapolis. She is charged with a felony count of aiding an offender to avoid arrest.
As of Tuesday afternoon, neither sister has been captured. Nationwide arrest warrants have been issued.
Investigators used witness accounts and surveillance video to piece together the circumstances of the crash:
Officers arrived and saw the 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. An ambulance took him to North Memorial Health Hospital, where he later died.
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 SUV’s lone license plate from the rear of the vehicle. The two passengers threw several liquor bottles into the bushes. The women fled on foot while witnesses gave chase.
Officers recovered a cellphone and paperwork identifying Victoria Yorahee from inside her SUV.