Oct 18, 2006 8:58 am US/Central
Another DWI For Driver Convicted In Sealy Death
by Jason DeRusha
Minneapolis (WCCO) ―
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Souksangouane Phengsene, 50, who pleaded guilty in 2000 to vehicular homicide for a crash that killed Minnesota Timberwolves guard Malik Sealy, was charged Oct. 17, 2006 with another DWI.
CBS
A man convicted of vehicular homicide in the drunken driving accident that killed a popular Minnesota Timberwolves player in 2000 has been arrested again for DWI.
Early Sunday morning, Crystal, Minn. police officers saw a car driving erratically and pulled over the driver, 50-year-old Souksangouane Phengsene, of Shakopee, Minn.
"When Officer Hodge went to stop the car, the driver came to almost a complete stop, and then drove over a curb as he went into a parking lot," said Crystal Police Captain Dave Oyaas.
Oyaas said Phengsene flunked a field sobriety test, was arrested and then submitted to an alcohol test at the police station. Oyaas said Phengsene's alcohol level tested at 0.21, nearly three times the legal limit for driving.
Phengsene was booked into the Hennepin County Jail and was charged Tuesday with felony DWI.
In 2000, Phengsene pleaded guilty to felony criminal vehicular homicide for a crash that killed Timberwolves guard Malik Sealy. Phengsene has been driving the wrong way on Highway 100 in St. Louis Park, Minn. when he hit Sealy's vehicle.
Sealy, 30, was returning home from after a birthday party for teammate Kevin Garnett.
Phengsene was sent to prison for four years.
Sealy's widow, Lisa Sealy, told WCCO-TV in 2000, "There's certain things that happen to me, whether it be negative or positive, that I'm like, I need to talk to him, like if anything that happened, we'd both tell each other and I don't have that person to call and say anything to."
The Wolves retired Sealy's number in 2000 and a gymnasium at Gethsemane Episcopal Church in Minneapolis bears his name.
Phengsene was also convicted of DWI in Iowa in 1997. He remains in the Hennepin County Jail and his bail has been set at $35,000. He is scheduled to appear in court again Wednesday.
If convicted, he could spend another four years in prison.
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