"Investigators are in the process of gathering additional information and answers to aid in the charging decision," a statement from the Hennepin County Attorney's Office says.
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The truck driver who drove onto the Interstate 35W bridge and narrowly missed hitting protesters over the weekend was released from jail without any criminal charges.
Bogdan Vechirko, 35, of Otsego, Minn., left the Hennepin County jail at midday after being held since Sunday evening on suspicion of assault after he rolled his empty fuel tanker into a crowd marching to protest the death of George Floyd on May 25 while being detained by Minneapolis police.
The County Attorney’s Office said it had until noon Tuesday to charge Vechirko or release him. Prosecutors did not say whether they charging Vechirko remains an option.
Earlier Tuesday, a relative of Vechirko’s said that the harrowing incident was unintentional.
Art Loghinov said he has spoken with Bogdan Vechirko since Sunday’s near-deadly sequence of events and is convinced that the incident on the bridge was “not his fault. ... He didn’t mean for it to happen. He didn’t have any intent to harm or do anything bad to anybody.”