A 23-year-old man was killed early Saturday in a rollover crash in Cass County.
Samuel Wilson, of Federal Dam, was a passenger in a 1998 Pontiac Grand Prix traveling on Hwy. 200 near Onigum Road around 4 a.m., according to the Minnesota State Patrol. The car ran off the right side of the road, struck a tree and rolled several times.
The driver, Phillip C. Nelson, 31, of St. Paul, was taken to Park Rapids Hospital with noncritical injuries. Alcohol was detected on Nelson, according to the patrol. He was not wearing a seat belt. Wilson was.
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