FERGUS FALLS, Minn. — One of the rescuers who responded to a crash that killed two brothers near Fergus Falls in June has been charged with taking money from a victim's wallet, according to the state Department of Public Safety.
Tara Kimberly Lindquist, 42, a member of the Dalton Fire and Rescue Squad, has been charged in Otter Tail County District Court with one misdemeanor count of theft.
According to the criminal complaint, she was among the first emergency responders at the scene of the June 23 crash on Interstate 94. The rollover killed brothers Connor Kvalvog, 14, and Zach, 18, and injured Mark Schwandt, 17, and Jimmy Morton, 18. The four were members of the basketball team at Park Christian School in Moorhead. They were on their way to a basketball camp. Schwandt and Morton were both hospitalized after the crash but survived.
A family member of one of the victims reported several days after the crash that some cash was missing from one of the victims' wallets, specifically a $100 bill given to each of the four boys by another family member. When the families received the boys' personal items back from the crash, all of the $100 bills were reportedly missing, according to a complaint filed with the charges.
Lindquist admitted to investigators that she took $120 from a wallet at the scene of the fatal crash, court records state.
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