Minnesota Shadow Prank Turns Fatal: Tree Trimmer Charged In CoWorker’s Grapple Death
Aug 23, 2026
A 34-year-old Minnesota tree service worker faces a second-degree manslaughter charge after authorities say he accidentally crushed a co-worker’s head with a hydraulic grapple while trying to line up their shadows on the ground. Christopher Boone Crimmins of Brainerd was charged Friday in Dakota C
ounty District Court with one count of second-degree manslaughter involving culpable […]
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