A 32-year-old St. Paul man is accused of fleeing law enforcement and crashing a vehicle into a tree, killing his girlfriend of five years, who was in the passenger seat.

Dylan John Smith, 32, of St. Paul, was charged Monday in Ramsey County District Court with criminal vehicular homicide in connection with the 28-year-old woman’s death. He also faces fleeing police in a motor vehicle and auto theft.

One of three teenagers who died after a car hit a tree in West Yorkshire has been named by police as his mother paid tribute to a “kind, thoughtful, hardworking” young man.

A car thief fleeing law enforcement from a Twin Cities shopping mall crashed into a tree and killed his girlfriend in the vehicle with him, according to charges filed Monday. Dylan John Smith, 32, of St.