Driver arrested after trying to cover-up Moorhead injury accident

Moorhead, Minn. (WDAY TV) - A late night crash in Clay County is baffling authorities in what they call a complicated mess and cover up. The crash has left one man behind bars and two men now fighting to stay alive.

“We got a fairly good idea of what the timeline actually is.”

Authorities are still piecing together a mystery nearly 24 hours after 23-year old Shawn Halvorson and 32-year old Theodore Narlock showed up at Innovis Hospital with critical injuries.

Narlock's mother tells WDAY today her son is in a coma. Police say the men were dropped off and doctors were told the two men were in a bar fight, but when doctors examined the injuries they noticed the men were in a car crash.

“Obviously there's a conspiracy here to cover up a crime and that's just something were not going to tolerate.”

After being notified, police found the vehicle on Village Green golf course, 4 to 500 feet from where it veered off a Moorhead exit and rolled several times. Authorities say alcohol and speed likely played factors in the near fatal crash.

“Obviously you don't go that far off of the road without having some sort of momentum.”

Officers now know after the rollover. The driver, 23-year old Kristofer From and passenger James From called James' wife Brittany to pick the four men up. Authorities say she dropped off Narlock and Halvorson at Innovis and took the Froms away from the scene.

“It makes it a lot tougher when people choose to break the law, to do what they think they need to do to help somebody out and there will be consequences for that.”

Kristofer from has been arrested on suspicion of criminal vehicular operation and leaving the scene of a personal injury accident, he was evaluated at merit care this evening and is in the Clay County jail.

If a small amount of alcohol is found is From's system, a toxicology lab can rebuild an alcohol concentration back to the time of the crash. Each of the four men has had run-ins with the law. Theodore Narlock's family is no stranger to tragedy. In fact, his uncle has a new law in North Dakota named after him.

Back in 2006, Larry Wayman's 13-year-old grandson Joseph died after a 16-year old hit the truck he was in. The driver, from Enderlin, was never tested for drugs or alcohol after the crash. For the next two years Wayman pushed for the law. Now, every surviving driver of a fatal accident is required to undergo drug and alcohol tests.