Derrick Thompson was sentenced Thursday to 58 years in prison for killing five Somali American women in a 2023 car crash in ...

Jurors in June convicted Thompson, the 29-year-old son of a former St. Paul state representative, of the third-degree murder ...

Derrick died a few weeks after being involved in a car accident on January 23, 2000. He was inducted into the Chiefs Hall of Fame later that year, and into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2009.

Derrick John Thompson was found guilty Friday on all counts — five of third-degree murder, 10 of criminal vehicular homicide — for killing Sabiriin Ali, Sahra Gesaade, Salma Abdikadir, Sagal ...

His son, Derrick Thomas Jr., is now 33 years old — the same age the linebacker was when he lost his life after a car accident. "It feels crazy because I still feel so young.

When I hear those stories, it makes me proud that I’m Derrick Junior,” Thomas said. Oddly enough, Thomas, who wore number 58 for the Chiefs, would have turned 58 years old this year.