An 11-year-old Baytown Township boy has died from injuries sustained last week after he was struck by a small SUV while riding an electric scooter in the township’s Emerald Falls neighborhood.

The boy, Kai Yoo, died Saturday at Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare in St. Paul, said Sgt. Mike Benson of the Washington County Sheriff’s Office.

Kai, a student at St. Croix Preparatory Academy in Baytown Township, was critically injured on the morning of Oct. 7 after he was struck by an Audi Q5 at the intersection of 40th Street North and Paradise Avenue North in Baytown Township.

“Kai was a valued member of the Prep community, and his loss has deeply affected our students, staff, and families,” school officials said in a statement. “No words can adequately express the heartbreak of losing a child so young, and our hearts go out to Kai’s family, friends, classmates, and all who knew and loved him.”

The crash occurred around 8:15 a.m., when a 57-year-old Baytown Township woman, traveling east on 40th Street in a 2018 Audi Q5, struck Kai, who was northbound on Paradise Avenue North, Benson said. There is a stop sign at Paradise, he said.

Kai, who was wearing a helmet at the time of the crash, was given CPR at the scene and then taken by ambulance to Regions Hospital in St. Paul. He was later transferred to Gillette, he said.

The crash remains under investigation.

Friends have started an online fundraising campaign (gofund.me/ee9f18cb9) to raise money for Kai’s family, which they described as “a devastating accident that has shaken the whole community.” More than $27,000 had been raised as of Wednesday afternoon.

— Mary Divine

WEST METRO

Zach Bryan to open ’27 tour at U.S. Bank

Country star Zach Bryan will open his upcoming tour in Minneapolis on April 28 at U.S. Bank Stadium.

Fans can register for a presale that starts at 10 a.m. Oct. 21 at zachbryanpresale.com. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Oct. 23 via zachbryan.com. Rock and Roll Hall of Famer John Fogerty and newcomer Fey Fili are also on the bill.

Bryan, 30, followed his family’s tradition of service when he enlisted in the Navy at the age of 17.

He used his spare time to write and record music, which he began posting online in 2017. He self-released albums in 2019 and 2020 that landed on several Billboard charts as his single “Heading South” went platinum.

In 2021, he toured for the first time (and played a show at Fillmore Minneapolis that November), made his Grand Ole Opry debut, signed a major label deal with Warner and was honorably discharged by the Navy to pursue music full time after serving for eight years.

In the time since, he’s become one of the genre’s biggest stars. His hits include “Something in the Orange,” “Burn, Burn, Burn,” “I Remember Everything,” “Pink Skies,” “High Road” and “Plastic Cigarette.” The latter is the lead single from his sixth and most recent album “With Heaven on Top.” Bryan wrote and produced the two dozen songs and one spoken poem. He has also released an acoustic version of the record.

Bryan sold out Target Center in 2023 and did the same a year later at USBS.

— Ross Raihala

Wisconsin

6 die in small plane crash near Wis. Dells

Six people died in a plane crash Tuesday in southern Wisconsin, local officials said.

Officials said five adults and one child were killed and were aboard a six-passenger, fixed-wing Piper Mirage Aircraft. There were no survivors, they said. The crash occurred near the Wisconsin Dells, a popular tourist destination.

The plane was making a return trip to Menomonie, Wis., about 70 miles east of Minneapolis, from Kenosha, Wis., near the Illinois border, when it crashed, Lt. Steven Schram of the Sauk County Sheriff’s Office said in a phone interview.

The plane had been in contact with a nearby air traffic control tower before it crashed, he said.

Investigators were examining those transmissions and trying to determine if weather played a role, Matt Burch, the field services captain of the Sauk County Sheriff’s Department, said in a statement.

Authorities received reports of a downed aircraft in the town of Dellona around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday. Dellona is about an hour’s drive north of Madison.

The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board would be assisting in the investigation.

— New York Times