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James Hance, 75, killed, after his vehicle collides head-on with another vehicle, driven by Jorge Juarez, 20, who was arrested on multiple charges, on Minnetonka Boulevard in St. Louis Park.

Date: 
Monday, April 14, 2014
Area: 
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
A driver under the influence of drugs and alcohol swerved into oncoming traffic on a well-traveled St. Louis Park street and struck a vehicle coming the other way head-on, leaving the owner of a well-known Hopkins hardware dead in the other vehicle, authorities said Thursday. The crash Tuesday night on Minnetonka Boulevard killed James Hance, 75, of Brooklyn Park, according to the Hennepin County medical examiner’s office. Hance was the second-generation owner of Hance Hardware in downtown Hopkins.