Hastings teen returns home two months after crash

On Monday night, Oct. 8, Brian Gapp sent a text message to a former teacher of his, Bill Ruder. Gapp was excited, he told his teacher, to visit the St. Paul Art Crawl over the coming weekend. That’s the last thing the 16-year-old Hastings boy remembers. By 10 a.m. the next day, he was nearly dead.