Criminal charges have been filed against a 22-year-old Minneapolis woman who’s accused of directly driving her SUV into a crowd of people and killing a 16-year-old girl following a fight last weekend in downtown Minneapolis.

The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office charged Latalia Anjolie Margalli on Tuesday with one count of second-degree intentional murder and five counts of assault with a dangerous weapon in connection with the hit-and-run crash that killed De’Miaya Broome and injured five other people early Saturday at the corner of Hennepin Avenue and Fifth Street.

“De’Miaya deserved to be safe,” Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said Tuesday during a press conference. “Everyone who goes downtown deserves to be safe.” 

Officers responded to the intersection around 12:20 a.m. Saturday and found several people injured from a hit-and-run, which followed a verbal-turned-physical altercation between a group of people near that corner, according to a press release from the Minneapolis Police Department.

Six people were taken to HCMC with injuries, including Broome, who died at the hospital. A 29-year-old woman was in critical condition following the hit-and-run. Two 14-year-old girls, a 24-year-old man, and a 28-year-old man were expected to survive.

“There aren’t words to describe how tragic and senseless it is to lose a 16-year-old female over something like this,” Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said Saturday during a press conference. “However, we are thankful because it’s clear we could’ve had more fatalities and more people injured.”

At least a dozen people were in the immediate path of the vehicle as it drove through the crowd, according to the police chief, who said video of the incident is “absolutely horrific.”

O’Hara said Margalli fled the scene in her vehicle and was located in North Minneapolis and arrested on suspicion of murder within about an hour of the incident. She’s scheduled to make her first court appearance Wednesday. 

Only a couple of days after the fatal hit-and-run, a 14-year-old boy was shot by an 18-year-old man in a parking lot at Hennepin Avenue and Fifth Street.

Officers in the nearby First Precinct station heard gunshots around 4:20 p.m. Monday, then almost immediately found evidence of gunfire in the parking lot and arrested an armed suspect in the alley behind the station, according to a press release from the Minneapolis Police Department.

The teenage victim was found a few blocks south on Hennepin Avenue around 4:30 p.m. Monday with at least one gunshot wound and transported to HCMC. He was expected to recover from his injuries.

“This is yet another clear example of the very real problem of the gun violence we have in this city,” O’Hara said in a statement. “MPD will continue its focused efforts to root out this problem that has such tragic results.” 

At least 15 violent assaults have occurred within a one-block radius of Hennepin Avenue and Fifth Street in 2024, according to the City's crime database.

Three people were injured in a shooting around 2 a.m. July 8 outside Augie's Bourbon Street Cabaret at the corner of Hennepin and Fifth.

Downtown Voices has reached out to the Minneapolis Police Department for additional comment.