Driver, 23, pleads guilty in deadly high-speed St. Paul crash

A Tesla driver who authorities said was speeding when he caused a fatal crash in St. Paul pleaded guilty earlier this week. A jury trial was set to begin Monday for Musab Kosar, a 23-year-old man from Fridley, Minnesota, but he instead pleaded guilty to third-degree murder. Last November, he was initially charged with criminal vehicular homicide.A state trooper first saw the speeding Tesla on the ramp from Pascal Street to eastbound Interstate 94 around 2 a.m. Wednesday, a criminal complaint states. Authorities allege the driver was going nearly 30 mph over the speed limit at the time, and subsequently reached speeds in excess of 100 mph.The trooper followed the Tesla without lights or sirens and saw the driver turn the vehicle's lights off while exiting at Dale Street. At the top of the ramp, the trooper found a crash between the Tesla and a Toyota RAV4.The RAV4's driver, 31-year-old Benjamin Villano, was killed in the crash. When the trooper checked on the Tesla, he found Kosar and a