Man sentenced to nearly 19 years in fatal crash pursuit
November 2, 2021 8:05AM CDT
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FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (AP) — A judge in Otter Tail County has sentenced a man to nearly 19 years in prison for a crash that killed two people as he was being chased by deputies.
As part of a plea agreement, 32-year-old Cody Freitag earlier pleaded guilty to two counts of fleeing a police officer resulting in death. Two counts of criminal vehicular homicide were dismissed.
Freitag blew through a stop sign as he was being pursued by deputies and struck a car, killing 72-year-old Steven Christianson and his 71-year-old wife, Diane Christianson in October 2020.
