Independence, MN (KROC-AM News) - A 19-year-old man has been charged with causing the death of an 11-year-old Minnesota child in an alleged distracted driving crash earlier this year.

According to a criminal complaint filed today in Hennepin County Court, law enforcement and other emergency personnel were dispatched to the scene of a multivehicle crash in the town of Independence earlier this year. The three-vehicle collision occurred at a four-way stop intersection.

It is alleged that Connor Iversen of St. Paul caused the deadly collision when he drove through a stop sign and crashed into an SUV, which then struck a pickup truck. Witnesses told investigators that Iversen did not slow down as he approached the intersection.

A crash reconstruction investigation was ordered, and the results found that the primary factor in the crash was Iversen’s failure to stop. It also determined that his vehicle was traveling at 63 mph one second before the collision.

The criminal complaint says investigators executed search warrants for Iversen’s phone records and discovered that he was using his cell phone in the moments leading up to the fatal collision.

The 11-year-old child killed in the crash, Lilyana Loyocano of Mound, was one of six occupants of the SUV that collided with Iversen’s vehicle. She was transported to a nearby hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

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