A man fled police in a stolen car in Roseville and crashed into a roundabout and tree Friday in St. Paul’s Hamline-Midway neighborhood, killing his girlfriend, who was his front-seat passenger, according to charges.

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.

Smith was arrested while walking away from the crash scene, and booked into the Ramsey County jail. He remained jailed Monday in lieu of $2.5 million bail. An attorney is not listed in the court file.

Authorities have not released the woman’s identity. She is identified in the criminal complaint by her initials, BS.

Smith has eight felony convictions since 2021, including two each for auto theft and fleeing police in a motor vehicle, court records show.

According to Monday’s complaint:

A Flock Safety camera at Har Mar Mall along Snelling Avenue caught a tan 2009 Toyota Camry with stolen license at 7:37 p.m. Friday. Police were alerted and an officer found the car unoccupied in the Cub Foods parking lot.

Squads set up at the exits and waited to see if anyone returned to the car.

Smith got into the Camry’s driver’s seat and BS into the front passenger seat. Nobody else was with them, the complaint says.

Officers activated squad lights when Smith began to drive away, but he sped toward Snelling Avenue.

A Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office sergeant pursued the Camry south on Snelling Avenue at speeds over 90 mph with his squad’s emergency lights and siren on. Smith drove into St. Paul, went west on Hubbard Avenue, north on Fry Street, east on Hewitt Avenue and south again on Snelling.Smith then drove into oncoming traffic on Snelling Avenue, and the sergeant discontinued the pursuit.

Smith went east on Blair Avenue, and the sergeant reengaged the pursuit with emergency lights and sirens. The sergeant lost sight of the car when it went south a few blocks ahead of him on Griggs Street.Smith then drove over a roundabout “dead center” on Griggs Street at Edmund Avenue, lost control and crashed into a tree midblock between Edmund and Charles avenues.

The sergeant saw Smith walking from the Camry in the middle of Griggs Street and arrested him. BS was found slumped over in the front passenger seat. The sergeant called medics for the driver, and Smith corrected him saying, “She was not driving,” the complaint says.

The Camry had been reported as stolen.

Deputies forced entry into the car through the driver’s door and found BS had a faint pulse and was gasping for air. She was pronounced dead at Regions Hospital just before 10 p.m. Smith was also taken to the hospital, where he admitted he had taken fentanyl that morning. A sample of his blood was taken pursuant to a search warrant. Smith said he was in the rear passenger seat and not driving.

In an interview with an investigator, Smith said BS was his girlfriend of five years. He said he was in an accident with BS and “someone else,” adding he did not know the other person. When the investigator told Smith the only people in the Camry were him and BS, he “dropped his head and closed his eyes,” the complaint says.