Driver hits, kills woman in Knollwood Mall parking lot in St. Louis Park

UPDATE 12/15 at 4 p.m.: The Hennepin County Medical Examiner identified the victim as 72-year-old Debra Kay-Larson Cizinski, of Minneapolis.


A woman is dead after a car hit her Friday afternoon in the parking lot of Knollwood Mall in St. Louis Park, authorities say.

According to the St. Louis Park Police Department, the pedestrian was hit just after 1:30 p.m. outside the shopping center situated near Highway 7 and Aquila Avenue South. Paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene.

St. Louis Park Police are investigating the circumstances of the crash and say the driver is cooperating.