by Cassandra Fairbanks at TimCast
The incident took place at approximately 2:30 a.m. on September 18, in McHenry.
In the moments before his death, Cayler Ellingson, 18, called his mother for help because Shannon Brandt, 41, was chasing him in his SUV.
Ellingson was on foot after leaving a street dance that he had just attended.
The teenager asked his mother if she knew the man, which she did, but she does not believe that her son knew him, according to a report from the Grand Forks Herald.
By the time the mother arrived at the scene, Ellingson had been killed.
Brandt had called 9-1-1 and confessed that he intentionally ran over Ellingson. He told the police that they had got into an argument and that the teenager was part of a “Republican extremist group.”
According to law enforcement, Brandt was drunk at the time of the killing.
“We do not know of any witnesses. We are still making attempts to interview potential witnesses from the street dance, people that were present prior to the crash happening,” North Dakota Highway Patrol Capt. Bryan Niewind told the Herald…
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