Park Tavern owner in disbelief about fatal crash

Published: Sep 01, 2024 Duration: 00:02:47 Category: News & Politics
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>>> THANK YOU FOR WATCHING WCCO. I AM SHAYLA REAVES. WE BEGIN WITH NEW DETAILS ON A DEADLY CRASH . THE CRASH HAPPENED AT PARK TAVERN'S OUTDOOR PATIO, KILLING TWO AND INJURING THREE OTHERS. MARIELLE MOHS JOINS US LIVE FROM THE BAR, WHERE THIS HAPPENED. YOU HAD A CHANCE TO SPEAK WITH THE BAR OWNER. WHAT ARE YOU LEARNING? >> SHAYLA, THIS ENTIRE RESTAURANT COMMUNITY AND GREATER ST. LOUIS PARK COMMUNITY IS GRIEVING IMMENSELY OVER THIS TRAGEDY LAST NIGHT BECAUSE IF YOU LIVE ANYWHERE NEAR PARK TAVERN, YOU'RE NOT ONLY A CUSTOMER, BUT YOU HAVE A LONG TIME -- LOOK AT THIS GROWING MEMORIAL. SO MANY PEOPLE WHO EITHER KNEW THE VICTIMS OR WERE SUPPORTERS OF THIS RESTAURANT. LOYAL CUSTOMERS COMING BY TO ADD FLOWERS, PUT UP OLD VINTAGE PARK TAVERN SHIRTS, BUT SPECIFICALLY WANT YOU TO FOCUS ON THE SCRUBS BECAUSE THIS IS HELPING US LEARN MORE ABOUT THE VICTIMS OF THIS TRAGEDY. WE KNOW THAT A METHODIST EMPLOYEE WAS INVOLVED IN THIS HORRIFIC CRASH LAST NIGHT AND NURSES AND STAFF MEMBERS HAVE BEEN COMING BY ALL DAY, LEAVING FLOWERS AND THE SCRUBS, REPRESENTING THAT PERSON. WE HAVE HAD PEOPLE COMING BY ALL MORNING, WHO KNEW -- THEY WANT TO MOURN . WE ARE LEARNING ABOUT THE TWO KILLED, ONE OF THEM A SERVER AT PARK TAVERN. SHE WAS A MOTHER OF THREE AND SHE WAS A GENERATIONAL EMPLOYEE, AS HER MOM ALSO WORKED AT PARK TAVERN. THAT IS THE CORE OF THIS BUSINESS. IT IS FAMILY. A LOT OF EMPLOYEES ARE GENERALLY SHOULD KNOW WORKERS, MAKING IT MORE HEARTBREAKING FOR THE STAFF WHO SURVIVED. I SPOKE WITH THE OWNER, WHO IS SHAKEN OVER THE TRAUMA THIS LEAVES BEHIND, HIS BUSINESS, AND HIS WORKERS OF 40 PLUS YEARS. >> WE HAVE HAD A FEW PEOPLE PASS AWAY, SO IT IS HORRIFIC. NOT JUST BAD. NOBODY CAN BELIEVE THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED. >> WE ARE ALSO LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE DRIVER BEHIND THE WHEEL. HE IS FACING A CRIMINAL? HOMICIDE CHARGE BUT HAS NOT BEEN FORMALLY CHARGED, SO WE ARE NOT NAMING HIM. HE IS A 56-YEAR-OLD MAN WITH A RECORD OF BAD DRIVING AND TWO GUI WILL ARREST. -- DUI ARRESTS. THEY WILL REMAIN CLOSED WHILE THE STAFF PROCESSES EVERYTHING IT PICKS UP THE PIECES, BUT THE

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