Minneapolis man charged in fatal car crash

A Minneapolis man has been charged with vehicular homicide and kidnapping, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced Monday.

Andre Jarrad Ogburn, 31, has been charged with one count of vehicular homicide and one count of kidnapping. A warrant has been issued for his arrest.

According to the criminal complaint, on September 16, police were dispatched to 12th Avenue and Knox Avenue North. A female driver at the scene told officers that she had been driving East bound on I-94 and was taking the 7th Street North exit when she saw a body lying on the road. She got out of her car and approached to see if she could provide assistance, but upon getting a closer look, it was apparent to her that the person was dead. She then saw a smashed up SUV and another individual who appeared to be unconscious or dead near the car.

She immediately returned to her car and when she got in, there was a man, later identified as Ogburn, getting into the front passenger seat. He was bleeding from his mouth and head area. He told the woman to drive to the parking lot of Mickey’s where he got out of the car, removed one of the white t-shirts he was wearing and pressed it to the wounds on his face before walking away. The woman drove away and called her sister who called 911.

At the same time as these events, police arrived at the scene of the crash and found the SUV with heavy roll over damage. The man who had been seen by the female driver was found lying face down on the right side of the road. Another man was found near the passenger side door of the SUV and he was taken by ambulance to HCMC, according to the complaint.

A witness at the scene who was driving a Metro Mobility bus said that he saw the SUV swerve around the bus, leave the road, strike a tree and then roll back down toward the roadway. He also saw that a man was ejected from the SUV.

The owner of the SUV was identified as an adult female. When contacted by investigators, she said she had owned the car for less than one week and Ogburn had asked to borrow it. On September 17, he came to her house and when she asked where her car was, he said, “it’s all bad.”

Ogburn told her had lost control of the SUV as he tried to avoid a bus and it flipped. He also said he left the scene because he has DWIs and was not supposed to be driving.

Ogburn’s whereabouts are unknown.

Ogburn Criminal Complaint (PDF)