A St. Paul, Minnesota, man is charged with criminal vehicular homicide in the hit-and-run crash that killed a 30-year-old woman on Thursday, court records said.

Michael Kentrell Smith, 38, was charged Monday with one count of criminal vehicular homicide in the fatal St. Paul collision.

The criminal complaint said officers responded to the crash at the intersection of St. Anthony Avenue and Aldine Street around 5:14 p.m. They found the woman near a crosswalk who had difficulty breathing and an injured right leg. She was taken to the hospital where she later died.

Family has identified the woman as Amber Deneen. Her husband, Charles Deneen, told police that he and his wife were walking their two German shepherds in the area when they entered a crosswalk, charges said. Investigators fo

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