MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Police say a man was carjacked at gunpoint at a golf club in Minneapolis last week.

It happened June 1 around 2 p.m. at Theodore Wirth Golf Club. A man was backing his 2015 black Audi A5 into a parking space when someone wearing a facemask and hoodie approached the car, the Golden Valley Police Department said.

The alleged carjacker had a gun and told the driver to exit the car. The suspect then drove off. The car contained $3,000 worth of golf equipment, police said.

Police found the car the next day in Minneapolis.

Golden Valley police are leading the investigation because of “similarities in other carjackings over the past month,” the department said.

RAMSEY COUNTY, Minn. (WCCO) — A 30-year-old Minneapolis man was with his pregnant wife when he allegedly shot at police officers in a vehicle pursuit in Ramsey County earlier this month.

Pablo Jaimes faces three felony counts of first-degree assault (use of deadly force against a peace officer) and two felony counts of drive-by shooting in connection to the Sunday incident.

Pablo Jaimes (credit: Ramsey County)

According to the complaint, a Minnesota State Patrol trooper attempted to stop Jaimes after he was spotted in an Oldsmobile Cutlass, speeding and driving on the shoulder of Interstate 35E near Arlington Avenue in St. Paul. He fled and drove off at speeds nearing 100 miles per hour.

When the chase neared Vadnais Heights, Jaimes allegedly fired a shot at the trooper. The gunshot did not strike the squad or the trooper.

As the pursuit headed east on Highway 96, White Bear Lake police became the primary squads involved in the pursuit, the complaint said. A Minnesota State Patrol helicopter was also following from above.

Jaimes allegedly slowed to nearly a stop at one point and fired multiple shots at two police squads. Again, no officers or squads were struck by gunfire. He then allegedly stopped the vehicle near the 1100 block of Birch Lake Boulevard in White Bear Lake Township and fled on foot with another person.

K-9 officers, guided by the state patrol helicopter, were able to locate Jaimes and a woman, identified in the complaint as ECMB. Jaimes was arrested. The woman, who is pregnant, was taken to the hospital after complaining of stomach pain.

A pistol was located nearby, allegedly abandoned by Jaimes during the pursuit.

Jaimes admitted to shooting at the officers, and said his wife had nothing to do with it, according to the complaint.

“He said his wife screamed at him to stop shooting – she never fired it,” the complaint said.

Jaimes allegedly said he was frustrated with law enforcement for not doing anything when his property was vandalized in the past.

At the time of the incident, Jaimes had a suspended driver’s license and a warrant out for his arrest in Hennepin County. The warrant was for a traffic stop where authorities found open bottles of beer and a loaded handgun in his car, along with methamphetamine in his wallet, the complaint said.

If convicted, Jaimes could face up to 25 years in prison for the first-degree assault charge.

ST. CLOUD, Minn. (WCCO) – Five teens received citations for fifth-degree assault following an incident at Apollo High School in St. Cloud last week.

The St. Cloud Police Department says the school’s administration and resource officer learned about the assault Thursday afternoon, shortly after it allegedly happened in one of the school bathrooms.

An investigation that included a video of the incident determined that the 15-year-old boy had gone to meet another 15-year-old boy in the bathroom to settle a disagreement.

Upon entering the bathroom, the victim found the other boy and four of his friends, ranging from 14 to 16 years of age, waiting inside. The five boys began assaulting the victim, punching and kicking him numerous times.

The victim sustained some injuries, none of which required medical attention at the time of the investigation.

All of the boys involved were current students at Apollo High School.

The St. Cloud Police Department and District 742 administration say they are committed to providing a safe and disruption-free atmosphere at school.

The district is taking administrative action with the students cited in the assault.

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A 63-year-old former manager at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival has been acquitted of sexual assault charges.

According to court documents, Carr Hagerman was acquitted of two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct on Tuesday.

Charges filed against him accused him of attacking and raping a woman who was working as a freelance photographer at the fair in 2017. He was artistic director of the annual fair at the time.

The complaint alleged the attack happened at a building on the festival grounds known as “Bad Manor,” and accused him of attacking her after he saw her wearing a pink ribbon from a support group for women at the festival.

BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. (WCCO) — A teenager was arrested in Brooklyn Park on Wednesday after reportedly assaulting a homeowner when she unexpectedly found the boy inside her house.

Police in the suburb north of Minneapolis say that the incident happened shortly before 11 a.m. on the 7300 block of Zenith Avenue. A relative of the homeowner had reportedly invited the boy inside without the homeowner’s knowledge or permission.

When officers arrived at the home, they were told that the boy fled west after assaulting the homeowner, who said she confronted the boy. Officers set up a perimeter and found the teenager inside a detached garage on the 7200 block of France Avenue.

The boy was taken into custody on “several offences,” police say. The incident remains under investigation.

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — A man wanted in a gunshot killing that occurred last year in Alabama has been arrested in Minnesota, police said Wednesday.

Javontae Mitchell, 18, was captured last week near the Canadian border by federal marshals, said Lt. Ray Blanks of the Selma Police Department. He is awaiting extradition back to Alabama, Blanks said.

Mitchell was sought in the killing of Taquon Fikes, 26, Blanks said. The Selma Times-Journal reported that Fikes was found lying unresponsive in the backyard of a house a year ago.

Fikes was killed in a “random fight,” Blanks said.

Court records were not immediately available to show whether Mitchell had an attorney who could speak on his behalf.

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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A 32-year-old man was arrested this week after being charged in the death of a northern Minnesota woman who fatally overdosed last year.

Cordaro Ware was charged in April with third-degree murder in connection to the victim’s death, court documents filed in St. Louis County show. Duluth police arrested Ware on Tuesday and booked him into the St. Louis County Jail.

According to a criminal complaint, Ware allegedly sold the victim, identified as a woman from Midway Township, drugs on Nov. 21. The victim’s mother found her daughter dead in her room the next morning.

(credit: St. Louis County)

An autopsy showed that the victim’s cause of death was an accidental overdose. The toxicology report found fentanyl, brorphine, morphine, and a common horse sedative in her system.

Investigators say that cell phone records show that the victim arranged to buy drugs from Ware on the night of Nov. 21. Cell tower data recorded the victim’s phone traveling to the place where Ware was staying in Duluth and returning back home.

In a statement made in December, Ware told investigators that he was a middle man for drug deals and didn’t see the victim that night. He said that the last time he saw the victim was at least a week before her death, when she came to buy heroin from him.

If convicted of the third-degree murder charge, Ware faces a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison.

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A northern Minnesota man was sentenced this week to more than five years in federal prison for sexually assaulting a girl nearly three years ago.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Minnesota said that 26-year-old Devon Johnson, of Hibbing, was sentenced Monday to 66 months in prison followed by 15 years of supervised release.

According to investigators, on June 22, 2019, Johnson got a minor girl intoxicated and sexually assaulted her on the Bois Forte Indian Reservation, which is roughly 50 miles south of International Falls.

Johnson pleaded guilty in March to one count of sexual abuse of a minor.

DULUTH, MINN. (WCCO) – Duluth Police Chief Mike Tusken announced Wednesday that he is retiring from the Duluth Police Department.

Tusken’s last day will be August 1, 2022. He has served the city of Duluth for over 30 years.

The chief moved up the ranks within the department as a patrol officer, juvenile investigator, patrol sergeant, investigative sergeant, lieutenant/area commander, and patrol deputy chief.

Tusken was named Duluth’s 36th police chief in May 2016 by Mayor Emily Larson.

During his tenure, Tusken was responsible for various initiatives, including a program that tracks crime trends and patterns to reduce crime and calls for service. He also started an initiative that allows officers to control a situation without using deadly force.

The Duluth Police Department says Tusken has been of incredible service and value to the city.

Tusken served on multiple boards and committees: the Executive Board for the Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association, Ensuring Police Excellence and Improving Community Relations Advisory Council to the Minnesota Police Officers Standards and Training Board.

Following his retirement from the department, Tusken will continue to instruct law enforcement students at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College’s law enforcement program, where he is the law enforcement program coordinator.

An interim chief of police will be announced closer to Tusken’s departure, and the hiring process will begin in the upcoming weeks.

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A pair of Minneapolis men face 20 criminal charges, including conspiracy, in connection to a string of armed carjackings involving rideshare drivers last fall.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office says Shevirio Kavirion Childs-Young, 18, and William Charles Saffold, 20, were part of a criminal conspiracy that targeted Lyft and Uber drivers in September and October of 2021.

Shevirio Childs-Young and William Saffold (credit: HCSO/US Atty’s Office)

Investigators say the men “lured victim-drivers to particular locations under the guise of picking up or dropping off passengers.” When the driver arrived at the location, the two men and other members of the group would pull out guns and demand their wallets and cellphones, forcing them to first unlock the devices and give their passcodes. The suspects then would drive off in the victims’ vehicles. If the victims refused, they were often beaten with a gun.

Members would then use apps to transfer money from their victims to their own accounts.

Childs-Young is in custody on state charges and has yet to appear in federal court. Saffold made his first federal court appearance Wednesday.

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A former Minneapolis police officer convicted of stealing drugs during traffic stops was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison.

U.S. District Court Judge Donovan W. Frank sentenced 29-year-old Ty Jindra, of Elk River, to 38 months in prison and one year supervised release. While Jindra is not currently in custody, he was ordered to surrender by July 28 to begin serving his term.

Jindra was convicted in November of three counts of acquiring a controlled substance by deception and two counts of deprivation of rights under color of law. The ex-cop worked as a Minneapolis officer from 2013 to 2020. The misconduct occurred between September of 2017 and October of 2019, prosecutors said.

Federal prosecutors said that Jindra abused his position as a police officer to steal methamphetamine, fentanyl, oxycodone, and other drugs from suspects during searches and seizures.

While Jindra was convicted of five counts, the judge ordered that the sentences would run concurrently.

LA CROSSE, Wis. (WCCO) — More than $1 million worth of drugs and several guns are off the streets thanks to a major bust in western Wisconsin Monday.

La Crosse police say officers confiscated 1 pound of fentanyl, 135 pounds of counterfeit Xanax, as well as cocaine, THC candies and methamphetamine pills.

(credit: La Crosse Police)

They also found five guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. There were also thousands of boxes, presumably to mail the drugs.

They arrested a 26-year-old man as part of the ongoing investigation. WCCO-TV does not typically name suspects until they are formally charged.

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will hold the first of at least six public hearings in a rare prime-time session Thursday evening to show the American public what they have learned so far about the riot and former President Donald Trump’s role.

The committee chair, Rep. Bennie Thompson, said last week that lawmakers plan to use a “combination of witnesses, exhibits, things that we have through the tens of thousands of exhibits we’ve […] looked at, as well as the hundreds of witnesses we deposed or just talked to in general.”

CBS News will broadcast the hearing as a Special Report on all CBS stations starting at 8 p.m., anchored by “CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell. She will be joined by CBS News chief political analyst John Dickerson; chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa; chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes; chief national affairs and justice correspondent Jeff Pegues; and chief congressional correspondents Nikole Killion and Scott MacFarlane.

Committee aides said the first hearing will be treated like an opening statement, with committee members sharing their initial findings about the attack. They will also preview the next hearings.

“We will be revealing new details showing that the violence on Jan. 6 was the result of a coordinated, multi-step effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election and stop the transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden, and indeed that President Donald Trump was at the center of that effort,” a select committee aide said. “We’ll remind people of what happened on that day. We’ll bring the American people back to the reality of that violence and remind them just how horrific it was.”

ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) — A Minneapolis man is accused of illegally filming dozens of men inside a Minnesota State Fair bathroom last summer.

The Ramsey County Attorney’s Office says Kurtis Michael Neu, 33, faces one count of interfering with privacy, and two counts of nonconsensual dissemination of private sexual images — both gross misdemeanors.

The criminal complaint states that a Ramsey County Sheriff’s deputy was working to determine who had been “drilling holes in toilet stall partitions in the Kidway bathroom.”

Another deputy had discovered a hole had been drilled in a men’s bathroom stall as well in the Agriculture Horticulture Building.

Kurtis Neu (credit: Ramsey Co. Sheriff’s Office)

The two deputies went to the building’s superintendent to discuss the discovery, and the superintendent then covered up that hole with duct tape.

The next day, one of the deputies returned to the AG/Hort Building to find the tape had been removed. Less than a half-hour later, dispatch was alerted about a suspicious male in that building’s men’s room.

Neu was discovered “playing on his cellphone” in a stall. He told staff that he “noticed the duct tape on the holes and that he stuffed them with toilet paper.”

He was arrested, and allowed investigators to look through his cellphone. Neu later admitted to making 80-plus recordings of men urinating in the Ag/Hort bathroom over the course of three days. Neu also told investigators he recorded videos at the 2019 fair, and revealed that he gave some of the videos to a friend, who he named.

Neu, who was charged by Minnesota State Fair prosecutors, could face up to two years in prison if convicted.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) — The Minnesota Supreme Court on Thursday heard arguments in a case involving the Minneapolis Police Department’s staffing levels and whether city leaders have properly funded the number of officers needed based on legal requirements in the city’s charter.

The case centers on language in the charter about how many police officers the city needs to fund at minimum per resident. Eight North Minneapolis residents who sued Mayor Jacob Frey and the Minneapolis City Council allege both have failed to uphold their legal obligation to adequately staff the department and should be compelled by the court to do so.

The document, which is like a constitution for the city, says the council “must fund a police force of at least 0.0017 employees per resident, and provide for those employees’ compensation.”

“[Plaintiffs] are here asking this court to restore the safety of their neighborhoods by enforcing the Minneapolis City Charter’s minimum police requirement,” said James Dickey, legal counsel for the plaintiffs, which include Don Samuels, a former city councilor and candidate for U.S. Congress.

Assistant Minneapolis City Attorney Greg Sautter argued the council has a duty to provide funding for a minimum number of officers, but not a duty to employ them. The mayor, who is in control of the department, has discretion over hiring, Sautter contends.

“Not included in that language is any requirement to employ a certain amount of police officers at certain level at any point in time,” Sautter told the court.

The North Minneapolis residents in the case are asking the state’s highest court to reinstate a district court judge’s decision they claimed as a win, ordering the city to hire more police officers to meet charter requirements. This spring, though, a Minnesota Court of Appeals panel reversed that ruling, agreeing with the city that the charter imposes a clear duty to fund, but not employ, a minimum number of officers.

Hennepin County Judge Jamie Anderson in the district court ruling last year said the city needed 731 sworn police officers — the number determined by the population formula — on staff by the end of this month.

Police staffing has plummeted in the two years since the pandemic began and the May 2020 murder of George Floyd that sparked civil unrest. The department has struggled to meet demand as crime increases. The most recent data available from the city shows 621 sworn officers, including 39 on leave, at the end of May.

One of the plaintiffs, Georgianna Yantos, in a news conference following the Minnesota Supreme Court hearing said last fall she saw a group of young adults dash through her backyard brandishing weapons and chasing a man they ultimately shot and killed.

She is pleading for more police in her neighborhood.

“I’ve lived there all of my life-in Jordan and Hawthorne—and I am not moving. The criminals have to move,” Yantos said. “We need help from the mayor and the city, whatever it takes.”

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The first of several new public hearings will lay out the findings of the Jan. 6 committee’s investigation into the storming of the U.S. Capitol. This comes almost a year and a half after the insurrection.

The idea behind this was to emulate the kind of investigation into the events leading up to 9/11. Twenty years ago, though, 9/11 had brought this country together. Today, we couldn’t be further apart.

If the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 6 is known as a day of infamy, the attack on the U.S. capitol on Jan. 6, that’s the day of incivility.

This week, a special committee of nine congressman — seven Democrats and two Republicans — host their first hearing on whether the riots were a protest gone rogue or something more nefarious.

CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa says the target audience is American voters, especially if any of them have stopped paying attention.

“Republicans have cast this as a political endeavor, but Republicans like Liz Cheney on the committee have told me — I sat down with her for CBS Sunday Morning — what she says she wants is for people to understand the system they live, everyday American democracy, is under threat, has been tested by this attack, it’s been tested by President Trump, and it could be tested again,” Costa said.

Taking questions from the committee tonight are Capitol police officer Caroline Edwards and filmmaker Nick Quested. Committee leaders also teasing new video depositions from former president Donald Trump’s closest advisors, even his family.

Committee hearings could last through the summer, some during daytime, and others at night.

The plan is to interview more than 1,000 witnesses. This is separate from the criminal investigations of those who trespassed and engaged in violence at the U.S. Capitol. Federal prosecutors have already filed charges against about 300 individuals and counting.

Erica MacDonald is the former U.S. Attorney for Minnesota who was appointed by Trump.

“There were body cameras, there were surveillance cameras, there were people actually recording their own criminal acts,” MacDonald said.

That evidence thus far has led to the arrest of eight people from Minnesota and nine from Wisconsin. The charges range from civil disorder to disorderly conduct, from violent entry to violence against police officers. Of those 17 suspects, 7 have pleaded guilty. Some were sentenced to prison, others probation. Those 10 other cases are still pending.

MacDonald says federal agents — and their local partners — are stretched thin, not just in manpower but also in demand.

“We’re seeing a spike in violent crime we haven’t seen in very, very long time in all of our major cities,” MacDonald said. “We’re seeing carjackings and assaults in broad daylight, so we have to make certain we’re not just focused on one matter but we’re doing everything we can to address that spike in violent crime.”

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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, took place more than 1,000 miles from the Twin Cities, but a special congressional committee is hoping the riots still reverberate in the hearts and minds of voters in Minnesota and beyond.

“It’s unique, because it’s a bracing reminder of what happened on January 6 – not just on that day, but in the weeks prior,” Robert Costa, CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent, told WCCO. “This was a legal and political crusade by then-President Donald Trump to try to block the certification of then President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory.”

The House select committee investigating the attack is made up of seven Democrats and two Republicans — Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) – both of whom have been essentially excommunicated from the GOP caucus.

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In an interview with Costa on CBS News Sunday, Cheney said she’s confident the hearings will capture the attention of the American public.

“What [Cheney] said she wants is for people to understand the political system they live in, the everyday American democracy, is under threat, has been tested by this attack, it’s been tested by President Trump, and it could be tested again,” Costa added. “What was going on in terms of President Trump calling state officials trying to get elections changed in different states, to hold onto power, what was the extent of that. We will see if they have new information on that as well.”

The committee chair, Rep. Bennie Thompson, said last week that lawmakers plan to use a “combination of witnesses, exhibits, things that we have through the tens of thousands of exhibits we’ve […] looked at, as well as the hundreds of witnesses we deposed or just talked to in general.”

The committee has interviewed more than 1,000 individuals, gathered more than 140,000 documents and received nearly 500 “substantive” tips on its tip line. Members have spent nearly a year reviewing documents and hearing testimony from people ranging from former Trump officials to Capitol police to riot defendants.

“As a reporter, I only have a notepad, a pen and a camera to try to get to the truth,” Costa explained. “This committee has additional tools, most notably subpoena power.”

More than 800 people arrested, including 8 from Minnesota

While the committee has focused its investigation on former President Donald Trump and his inner circle, federal investigators have simultaneously pursued thousands of suspects.

“There were body cameras, there were surveillance cameras, there were people actually recording their own criminal acts,” Erica MacDonald, the former U.S. Attorney for Minnesota, explained to WCCO. “All of that digital evidence coming into play is an insurmountable amount of evidence.”

So far, that evidence has led to the arrest of at least 862 people, including eight from Minnesota and nine from Wisconsin.

“As prosecutors, our job is to make sure that we are taking each case individually,” MacDonald said. “We are not lumping people together. We are making appropriate and careful consideration of what they did and whether they should be held accountable and to what extent they should be held accountable.”

Among the 17 suspects from both states, seven have entered plea deals while 10 cases remain pending.

According to MacDonald, the sheer volume of evidence is actually delaying the investigation even though the evidence is so helpful in tracking down the perpetrators.

“With all that evidence someone has to review it and that slows things down,” she said. “This is a tremendous undertaking for the government in this case. This is the biggest investigation of its kind.”

Adding to the challenges is that federal agents – and their local partners – are stretched thin by their growing case load that has nothing to do with the Capitol.

“We’re seeing a spike in violent crime we haven’t seen in very, very long time in our major cities. We’re seeing carjackings and assaults in broad daylight, so we have to make certain we’re not just focused on one matter but we’re doing everything we can to address that spike in violent crime.”

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Even though there are fewer officers on the force, Minneapolis police have taken hundreds of guns off the street.

“We have police officers that have gotten over 400 guns off the street this year alone,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said on Thursday. “That is incredible work.”

The mayor says city officers need to be applauded for their efforts, adding that lives are being saved.

“Over the last 28 days, homicides are down by 60%,” the mayor said. “So, are we there yet? Hell no, but they’re making progress.”

He says the city can cheer for police all while working toward transforming policing.

“Last year our officers took over 1,000 guns off the streets despite that fact that we have lost about a third of our sworn staffing,” said Interim Police Chief Amelia Huffman. “So, the officers are out there, they are continuing to work hard, and continuing to be focused on gun crime.”

Huffman says they’ll keep working with community partners and focus efforts on neighborhoods plagued by violence. About 80% of the city’s shooting victims are Black men and boys.

The shootings are too much for anyone to bare, that’s why this summer city residents will see an increased presence of officers.

“Between law enforcement and the prosecutorial arm, the U.S. Attorney’s Office…[they] will be working to make sure if you are involved in this B.S., if you are shooting a gun off, you are going to be held accountable, you are going to be arrested,” Frey said.

Some of the guns were taken off the street with help from community. Huffman encourages people to speak up and be a part of the movement to stop senseless gun violence across the city.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A Minnesota man accused of dealing drugs out of a motorhome has been sentenced to 27 years in prison, according to federal authorities in South Dakota.

A federal indictment accuses Frank Stewart, 62, of participating in a drug ring that distributed massive amounts of methamphetamine in South Dakota and elsewhere.

“He personally distributed more than 500 grams of methamphetamine during his involvement in the conspiracy,” U.S. Attorney Alison Ramsdell said.

Stewart, of Browns Valley, Minnesota, pleaded guilty in December to conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance. Two other defendants have been charged in the case.

Stewart was arrested last year in Todd County, Minnesota, where police searched his motorhome and discovered a half-pound of meth, more than $9,000 in cash and two firearms, according to a west-central Minnesota drug task force.

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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Carjackings have plagued communities across the Twin Cities, but investigators say the surge is starting to subside.

Many times, rideshare drivers were the targets. Shaheen Yasir has been a full-time Lyft driver for three years. He says safety is a constant concern.

“A lot of people does have protection in their car,” Yasir said. “Me personally, I don’t have like any like pepper spray or a gun or a knife. Just hope God, you don’t be a victim.”

A spree of rideshare carjackings last fall spurred Minneapolis police to push out a crime alert. There’d been more than 40 robberies in just two months.

Now, MPD says crimes against Uber and Lyft drivers have dropped off close to zero.

Looking at carjackings overall, there have been about the same number in Minneapolis this year as at this time last year, but there have been fewer in recent months versus late last year.

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In St. Paul, there have been 31 carjackings this year. Last year at this time, there had been 101.

“We take one carjacking incredibly seriously, but in the scheme of things, it’s a really small number of people who are victimized,” said Steve Linders with the St. Paul Police Department.

Police tell us the decline has come from arresting suspects and stopping repeat offenders. They also say people’s increased awareness and traveling in groups has kept passengers safer, too.

Some additional reminders for rideshare passengers from St. Paul police: Confirm the vehicle’s license plate before getting in, stay in the backseat, and don’t share anything too personal. It’s also a good idea to follow along on your own map app during the ride.

“If you order a vehicle and you walk up to the car and something doesn’t feel right, trust your gut,” Linders said. “Make other arrangements. Order another vehicle.”

The U.S. Attorney’s Office has served federal indictments against two men Wednesday for their role last fall in several carjackings of Uber and Lyft drivers. Prosecutors say more charges are likely coming in the near future.

PLYMOUTH, Minn. (WCCO) — Police in Plymouth are investigating a deadly shooting Thursday evening at a gas station.

Officers were called to the business on the 9600 block of 36th Avenue North at about 8:25 p.m. on a report of a shooting.

BREAKING: Police in Plymouth are investigating a deadly shooting at a gas station on 36th Ave N. just off of Highway 169. A male victim died after being taken to a local hospital.

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They arrived to find a “male with a gunshot wound.” The victim, whose age wasn’t specified, later died at an area hospital.

Police are asking for anyone with information on this homicide to call 763-509-5177.

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A man believed to be in his 30s is dead after a shooting in north Minneapolis Thursday evening, according to police.

Just before 10 p.m., Minneapolis police officers responded to a Shotspotter alert that gunshots were fired in the area of the 1800 block of Sheridan Avenue North.

As officers were arriving, they found out that a man had arrived at North Memorial Center suffering from gunshot wounds. The man died at the hospital.

No arrests have been made at this time and the investigation is ongoing.

Anyone with information is asked to contact CrimeStoppers at 1-800-222-8477. Tips can be submitted online, too. All tips are anonymous and a reward is possible.

The shooting happened less than two hours after a deadly gas station shooting in Plymouth.

PENNINGTON COUNTY, Minn. (WCCO) – A northwestern Minnesota man who was charged for fatally stabbing his wife is accused of assaulting corrections officers during an attempted escape from prison.

Eric Reinbold, 45, tried to escape on Saturday from the Pennington County Jail. Two corrections officers were sent to the hospital after the incident, according to documents. He was charged with first-degree assault, attempted escape from custody, and fourth-degree assault.

According to the complaint, an officer was standing near a medication cart, asking if any inmates needed over-the-counter medications. Reinbold said he did, and came around the cart and grabbed the officer. He then allegedly knocked her to the floor so hard she “saw stars” and then grabbed her arms and dragged her across the floor. He continued to strike her while holding a white colored pencil, documents say.

Another officer approached him, and he forcefully shoved him into a wall. He told the officer to open the interior jail door, but the officer said he could not, because couldn’t feel his legs. Reinbold then grabbed the corrections badge from the officer’s chest and attempted to use it on the badge reader to open the door, the complaint states. However, the badge does not open the door to the jail.

A third officer came to the scene and, after failing to verbally deescalate the situation, deployed her Taser. However, the probes didn’t work because of the amount of clothing Reinbold was wearing. He did drop the pencil and eventually the officer used the Taser to stun the right side of his ribs.

Reinbold was then handcuffed, and two Thief River Falls police officers arrived to help put him in a holding cell.

The entire incident was caught on the jail’s surveillance system, the complaint says.

Eric Reinbold (credit: Pennington County)

Reinbold was accused in 2021 of stabbing his wife multiple times in her neck and torso. She was found dead in the driveway of her home on July 9. According to the complaint, one of children told investigators he thought Reinbold was upset because he believed his wife was seeing somebody else.

He was last seen the night before her death and was found nearly a month later “hiding in the woods” near an abandoned homestead. Before his wife’s death, he had a criminal record that included charges of making bombs.

First-degree assault carries a maximum sentence of 20 years and attempted escape from custody has a maximum 2.5 year sentence, if convicted.

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A 17-year-old from Minneapolis will stand trial as an adult in a pair of carjackings that happened in December 2021 in Edina and St. Louis Park.

Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman says that the teen faces five counts of first-degree aggravated robbery.

According to the court records, on Dec. 9 around 3:15 p.m., St. Louis Park police responded to a grocery store parking lot after learning of a robbery. A man told officers that he was in his SUV when the two teenagers tried to pull him out. The man says the two teenagers repeatedly punched him while threatening him with a drill, pretending it was a gun, said the petition. The man suffered multiple injuries.

The teenagers then fled the scene in a stolen white SUV.

Soon after the incident, the white SUV went to an Edina grocery store around 5 p.m. The SUV pulled into a parking spot next to a woman who was sitting in her car and the teenagers entered the woman’s passenger’s side doors, said the petition. According to the petition, the teenagers “began to punch the female victim, while also attempting to push her out of the driver’s side door while her seat belt was still buckled.”

During the incident, one of the teenagers managed to put the woman’s vehicle in reverse and strike a man in the head with the driver’s side door as he accelerated backward and ran over the man’s legs.

The woman was still entangled by her seat belt and was dragged through the parking lot. The woman suffered significant cuts and scrapes to her right shoulder.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) — Advocates and state leaders are celebrating a new law named for a Minnesota rape survivor. It’s designed to improve how law enforcement responds to cases of domestic violence and sexual assault.

In Congress, Minnesota leaders pushed it over the finish line, thanks to one woman’s courageous fight to improve the process of reporting for survivors.

Abby Honold called 911 after she was raped by another student while attending the University of Minnesota eight years ago.

“I was traumatized, I was a teenager,” Honold said.

But she says the response that followed intensified her pain. The police officer dispatched, she says, wasn’t trained on how to handle a case like hers with care.

“If I had received a caring response from the beginning I think a lot of that trauma would’ve been lessened for sure,” Honold said.

Honold fought for years after attack to ensure better police response for other survivors. The Abby Honold Act that passed Congress is the culmination of that work, creating a federal grant program for law enforcement to implement trauma-informed trainings in departments across the country and improve response to sexual assault crimes.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar led the effort in the U.S. Senate.

“The victims and survivors of these crimes show incredible courage coming forward and we must treat them with the utmost respect in the investigative process,” Klobuchar said.

The effort was cheered by advocates and Mendota Heights Police Chief Kelly McCarthy, who says the step by Congress is significant for law enforcement in Minnesota.

“We’re one step closer to having that training and making it easier for departments to have that,” McCarthy said.

And for Honold, a legislation in her name represents turning pain into purpose.

“To be able to take by far the worst thing to ever happen to me in my life and to be able to make something out of that … even if one survivor is helped by this, it would be worth it,” Honold said.

The provisions were included in the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. It was a bipartisan effort that also got support from Republican Rep. Tom Emmer.

Klobuchar says grants will be funded at the end of the year.

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A Minneapolis carjacking victim wants answers and an arrest. It’s been two summers since Ben Schmid was shot 16 times in a hellacious ordeal.

Schmid is miraculously alive after being carjacked in July 2020 near 37th and Elliott, a few blocks from George Floyd Square in south Minneapolis.

“You get shot once in the hand and then after that, I went blank,” he said. “It was horrifying.”

Schmid is now confined to a wheelchair, without feeling in his left leg or his fingertips. He’s in physical therapy twice a week where he’s working to move around with a walker.

The public police report of the incident says there were no witnesses. No arrests have been made.

“Because it was during a time that the city was so busy and just on fire, I feel like I got put at the bottom of the shuffle,” Schmid said. “It’s really frustrating because I’ve just been sitting here idle waiting for an answer.”

Police confirmed they’re actively investigating this open case, and said, “Each case advances at a pace determined by the availability and quality of evidence and leads.”

As he waits, Schmid can’t help but wonder what if this hadn’t happened?

“Playing catch with my stepson or playing with my daughter, and it’s all in a wheelchair. It’s doable but it’s not the same,” he said.

Schmid’s wife, Lydia Mueller, says this has been the hardest two years of her life, as she’s helped her husband fight every day in his recovery.

“He’s an awesome dad, an amazing dad. He’s hilarious,” Mueller said. “He does what he can and he’s always there for them.”

Schmid and Mueller know every shooting is important, and police have so many cases to investigate, but to them, this is everything, especially when that carjacker could be out there victimizing more families.

Schmid doesn’t know who called 911 that night, but he’d like to meet them, so he can say thank you.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Parole Commission Chairman John Tate resigned Friday, a month after Democratic Gov. Tony Evers made a hasty appeal to Tate in the midst of Republican criticism over parole plans for a convicted murderer.

Evers, who asked Tate to step down, had come under fire from GOP gubernatorial candidates when Douglas Balsewicz appeared to be on his way to freedom last month after serving less than 25 years of his 80-year sentence for stabbing his wife to death in 1997.

Instead, Tate changed his mind after the governor said the family hadn’t gotten a chance to fully respond to the move.

“I do not agree with this decision, and I have considerable concerns regarding whether Johanna’s family was afforded sufficient opportunity to voice their memories, perspectives, and concerns before this decision was made,” Evers wrote.

Tate did not mention the Balsewicz case in his resignation letter, but said he was told at the outset it was the most difficult job in the state.

“The difficulty could not be understated, as no parole decision is easy and no decision can ever truly satisfy all interested parties,” Tate wrote. He added that he has done his best to be “fair, just and understanding.”

Balsewicz, 54, was set to be released from prison for killing wife Johanna Balsewicz in front of their children. Evers, who lacks the power to rescind someone’s parole on his own, wrote a letter to Tate asking him to reconsider.

GOP gubernatorial candidates Kevin Nicholson and Rebecca Kleefisch called for Evers to fire Tate. Paul Farrow, chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, accused the governor of giving criminals more consideration than victims.

“It shouldn’t have taken widespread public outrage (over Balsewicz’s parole) for Tony Evers to finally consider doing the right thing,” Farrow said.

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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A man was killed and another was injured in a shooting early Saturday morning in Minneapolis.

Police say that around 3:20 a.m., they found a car in the median of the 1500 block of Nicollet Avenue, and the driver had been shot. He died at the scene.

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Later, officers learned that a second man from the scene, who was not in the car, suffered a non-life threatening gunshot wound. He was taken to a hospital.

No arrests have been made in the case. The victim’s identity will be released by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner.

Minneapolis police say Saturday’s shooting marks the 40th homicide in the city so far this year.

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A 30-year-old man has been charged with fatally shooting a man in Minneapolis in April.

Dajohn Cortez Ramon Yarborough faces one charge of second-degree murder and one charge of illegal firearms possession in the shooting death of 27-year-old Darrell Lamont Sims II.

According to the complaint, Minneapolis police responded to 24th Street and Elliot Avenue South on April 2 to find Sims outside an apartment building with a gunshot wound to the chest. He was taken to a hospital, but later died.

Security camera footage showed that Sims approached the front door of the apartment complex, and Yarborough walked up to him and started to fire his gun. The gun was loaded with an extended magazine, charging documents say.

A Hennepin County Sheriff’s Deputy sent images of Yarborough to two confidential informants, who helped identify him.

Yarborough’s whereabouts are unknown. In the past, he has been convicted of assault and drug possession.

BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. (WCCO) — Police are investigating Saturday after two people were hurt in a shooting outside a Brooklyn Park barber shop.

Authorities in the suburb north of Minneapolis say the shooting happened in the parking lot of a barber shop near the intersection of 63rd and Boone avenues. Bullets flew into the business.

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The two shot were a 67-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman. Emergency crews brought them to a local hospital for treatment. Their injuries were described as “non-life-threatening.”

Investigators do not believe the victims were the intended targets. The suspects fled the area before officers arrived on the scene.

So far, no arrests have been made.

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Minneapolis police are investigating the city’s 41st homicide of the year after a man was found dead inside an apartment south of downtown Sunday morning.

Firefighters were first called to the building on the 1700 block of 3rd Avenue South just before 9 a.m., but they arrived to find no sign of fire.

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Instead, crews found a deceased man inside an apartment “believed to be in his 60s” with non-thermal injuries.

Police were called, and officers soon arrested a 55-year-old man at the scene.

The investigation is ongoing.

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Increased gun violence, carjackings and assaults on Minneapolis streets are the focus of a Safe Summer initiative led by the Minneapolis Police Department.

Operation Safe Summer Greater Minneapolis Violent Crime Initiative began on May. But for the past week, a number of law enforcement agencies collaborated to get some of the most violent criminals, as well as their guns and drugs, off the streets.

WCCO’s Reg Chapman has exclusive access to the detail.

MPD Sgt. Andrew Schroeder leads roll call, making sure officers and deputies from multiple departments know what they are up against.

“In 2021, you see 47 percent of our gunshot victims are in north Minneapolis, followed by the 3rd Precinct with 28 percent,” Schroeder said.

An increasing number of victims are being killed by automatic gunfire, created by a switch or auto sears, illegally sold to alter semi-automatic weapons — like the one used in a homicide on North 18th and Sheridan avenues.

“It’s unbelievable, and unacceptable,” Schroeder said.

Committed to stopping this activity are members of MPD, the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office, the Department of Homeland Security, the ATF, FBI, DEA, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the Minnesota Department of Corrections, and the Department of Justice.

Most of the violence happens in the Fourth Precinct. LaTrisha Vetaw represents Ward 4 and joined roll call to commend law enforcement on the work being done to keep people safe.

“This is amazing, like how we’ve come together around public safety,” Vetaw said. “The service that you’re providing in this community is what people want to see on 36th and Penn, want to see on Broadway, want to see on Lake Street, and I encourage you to keep up the good work.”

“I think it’s a big deal out of the 60 arrests we’ve made, we haven’t had a reportable use of force. That to me is huge,” Schroeder said. “We want those people off the street. You’ve shown already that you’ve been charged with a violent crime or they have probable cause to arrest you, that’s part of what we’re doing this week in the Greater Minneapolis Gun Violence Initiative is to try and get some of these shooters off the street.”

Within minutes, Schroeder and his team located a man who ran from them earlier. Armed with a search warrant, officers surrounded the suspect’s vehicle, and he tries to run again.

Officers fired a 40mm less-lethal round through the rear window. After further non-compliance, officers fired another round, but this one contained a chemical spray to soon led the minivan’s occupants to surrender.

Inside the vehicle, police found what they were looking for in their search warrant: a firearm with an extended magazine and a round in the chamber, and prescription pills.

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“All the while this is happening, there is a shooting, a carjacking and two more people with gun calls,” Schroeder said.

While others in the detail respond to those calls, shots from another car sent a BMW speeding down Lowry Avenue. It collided with this Porsche turning from Penn Avenue. A bullet hole is visible in the rear driver’s side tail light.

“Where the clip is for the seatbelt, the bullet is in there,” Schroeder said. “It’s incredible no one’s dead.”

While MPD processed the scene, others went searching for the shooter.

“Within 40 minutes we have a shooter in custody. That doesn’t happen without our partnerships with all these shared agencies,” he said.

An ATF canine uncovered drugs and a gun inside the vehicle where the shots came from.

“These are what people are overdosing on every day, and then another gun,” he said.

So far, this detail has made more than 97 arrests, including multiple shooting and carjacking suspects – and three people wanted for murder.

Thirty-eight illegal firearms were recovered, including four with switches.

Seventeen stolen vehicles were also recovered, with at least five being carjacked vehicles.

This works is in direct response of pleas from people who live here.

“If you listen to the residents, you listen to the business owners, they are tired of being afraid. They’re tired of not being able to live their lives the way they want to live them,” said Maj. Dewanna Witt with the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office.

The special detail ran for five days, ending early Sunday morning.

Members of the Greater Minneapolis Crime Initiative also made arrests in Brooklyn Park, New Hope — and even tracked a fugitive to Bemidji.

Final numbers from the detail will be released by MPD later this week.

RED LAKE, Minn. (WCCO) — A $5,000 reward is being offered in hopes that it will help solve the 2020 murder of Jacob Hunter in Red Lake.

According to the FBI Minneapolis Field Office, Hunter was murdered on Oct. 7, 2020 at around 11:30 p.m. in the East Barton area of Red Lake.

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Anyone with information is asked to call FBI Minneapolis at 763-569-8000. Tips can also be submitted online.

According to the Red Lake Nation News, Hunter moved to Red Lake with his family in 2020 from Chicago, Illinois. He was 31 years old when he was murdered.

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — WCCO is giving you an inside look at the teamwork it takes to tackle crime in Minneapolis. Recently, WCCO’s Reg Chapman rode along with police for a first-hand look at Operation Safe Summer, the only reporter allowed to do so.

The Operation Safe Summer Greater Minneapolis Violent Crime Initiative began back on May 1. But for the past five days, the Minneapolis Police Department and its federal, state and local partners worked together to get some of the known shooters, drug dealers and car jackers off the street.

Police say they could not have completed this detail successfully without the help of their partners. The Hennepin County Sheriff’s office, ATF, DEA, FBI, BCA and Department of Homeland Security were all focused on bringing safety to a city under seize by gun violence.

Working together, law enforcement was able to make 97 arrests, including three people wanted for murder.

There were 38 illegal guns taken; four had illegal switches, which convert semi-automatic guns to fire automatic. A sizeable amount of pills was also recovered, as well as 17 stolen cars, several of which had been carjacked.

From 17th and Oliver Avenue North to 26th and Bloomington Avenue South, hot spots where crime happens were targets for this detail. Sgt. Andrew Schroeder let officers and deputies from multiple departments know what they are up against.

“A two-year almost 90% increase in ShotSpotter activations, a 456% increase from 2021 … that’s a lot of gunshots,” Schroeder said.

Most of those gunshots sound like automatic gunfire.

What the MPD says they are most proud of is that there was no serious use of force and no one got hurt during the detail.

Police know there is lots more work to be done to provide a safe environment for all residents. Interim Chief Amelia Huffman hopes more people in the community step up and partner with police to help stop the violence.

“I keep the photo of those three guns on the board precisely as a reminder of how important that relationship with community is. Those three guns were taken off the streets precisely because a community member saw activity they were concerned about and they were worried about the possibility of violence on their block, and they called 911,” Huffman said.

Last year, after losing a third of its staff, MPD took over a thousand guns off the street. The hope is that they can get even more guns with the help of the community.

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Sad, frustrated, and changed forever. A Cambridge family says that’s how they feel one year after their beloved teenager was killed.

Nicholas Enger had driven down to the Twin Cities to watch street racing in June of 2021. He was killed in the middle of the excitement when a bullet hit him. The case is still wide open.

Since then, his family has moved into a new home. It’s the new home they always dreamed of. Nicholas has his own bench near the water. As an avid fisherman, it just makes sense. But what doesn’t is that he never saw this place, and he never will.

“Still has his bedroom, his truck in the driveway,” said mother Amanda Bolz. “He’ll always have a place here.”

His bed is covered with memories, adorned with a quilt made of his old shirts. Their hearts are covered in grief.

“Everything. Christmas, Easter, birthdays, it was his 18th birthday. Every day I think if Nicholas was here, how things would be different,” she said.

The kindhearted car lover left the country for the city for a few hours. But just as the cars were flying by, bullets started flying, too.

Nicholas Enger (credit: Amanda Bolz)

“We are pretty much at same spot we were a year ago,” Bolz said. “I know the detectives and the police department are doing their best, but we need people to come forward. We need answers.”

And that is the key to this case. The bullet went through Nicholas, so there’s no evidence. They really need a tip.

“We just need the justice,” said Ava Fredrickson, Nicholas’ girlfriend. “I mean, I just, it really doesn’t get much harder … it’s a nightmare that you never wake up from.”

They’ve raised $17,000 for a reward in hopes of getting that justice, and that someone who knows something will say something.

“Clear your own conscious, do the right thing,” Bolz said. “Out of this tragedy, give us one bit of peace.”

Anyone with information can submit an anonymous tip online to Crime Stoppers, or call 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

The weekend Nicholas was killed, Vanessa Jensen of Lindstrom was also killed at a Minneapolis street race. Both cases are open, and police need more tips.

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The parents of a 3-year-old boy injured in a shooting in Minneapolis earlier this month have been charged.

The shooting happened June 5, at about 9 p.m. The boy’s parents brought him to North Memorial Health Hospital with a gunshot wound. According to filed charges, a bullet passed through the boy’s body, causing damage to his bowels and his hip bone.

On Monday, charges were filed against Maceo Anthony Cortez Beckley and Cydnie Capri Zimmerman, both 30 years old. Police say the boy’s parents told investigators that the boy was playing outside when he was shot, and they were indoors at the time. Witnesses would later disprove those claims.

While at the hospital, officers say that Beckley said he needed to make a phone call, and at that point disappeared from the scene.

Officers obtained a search warrant, and found a “considerable amount of blood” on the master bedroom flood. They also located an amount of ammunition and gun magazines in places where children could access them. A Smith and Wesson firearm was also retrieved from under the couch cushions in the living room.

Cydnie Capri Zimmerman (credit: Hennepin County)

Police interviewed Zimmerman again and she admitted that the boy had shot himself, and that the gun belonged to Beckley.

Witnesses also told investigators that Beckley “is known to carry firearms and wear a shoulder holster.” He is also prohibited from possessing firearms and ammo in connection to a separate case in which he’s been charged with making threats of violence.

Both face charges of child endangerment. A warrant has been issued for Beckley’s arrest.

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — When classes begin at Mitchell Hamline School of Law this fall, the incoming class will include Maureen Onyelobi, who is currently incarcerated.

Onyelobi will be the first incarcerated person to ever enroll in an American Bar Association-approved law school in the U.S., according to a release from Mitchell Hamline.

The law school made the announcement on Monday, saying that the school intends to enroll more incarcerated people in the coming years.

Onyelobi learned she was accepted on June 9 when the President of Mitchell Hamline, Anthony Niedwiecki, visited her at Minnesota Correctional Facility in Shakopee to share the news. The school says her tuition will be paid by private fundraising and scholarship assistance.

Maureen Onyelobi (credit: Mitchell Hamline School of Law)

Onyelobi will attend classes entirely online. This comes after the American Bar Association granted Hamline permission to allow qualified incarcerated people to enroll in its law program. The school also says they are now able to admit up to two incarcerated students each year.

Hamline says the effort is almost three years in the making. The university collaborated with the Legal Revolution, a nonprofit that aims to educate incarcerated people across Minnesota.

According to state records, Onyelobi was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder in 2014. She was sentenced to life in prison and could serve up to 40 years in prison.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) — St. Paul police are investigating the city’s 20th homicide of the year.

Police say a man in his 40s was killed Monday evening in the North End neighborhood.

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Officers were called at about 5:30 p.m. to the area of Winnipeg Avenue and Rice Street on a reported assault, and arrived to find the victim “suffering from a fatal wound.” He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police don’t think this was a random attack. No one is in custody. Anyone with information on this homicide is urged to call 651-266-5650.

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Two people have been charged in connection with a double homicide in Minneapolis that authorities say was gang-related.

Court documents show Deijuan McCaleb-Robinson is charged with second-degree murder and a felony weapons charge. Lerita Rayford, the alleged getaway driver, faces a charge of aiding an offender to avoid arrest. A third suspect has yet to be identified or charged.

Deijuan McCaleb-Robinson and Lerita Rayford (credit: Hennepin County)

The fatal shootings occurred on May 14 near Broadway and Bryant avenues in north Minneapolis. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the victims as Deion Robinson, 51, and Kayvon Williams, 21.

According to a criminal complaint, witnesses saw two men and a woman get out of a Ford Fusion at the scene before the shooting. One of the men, who was wearing a blue hoodie, allegedly shot Robinson and Williams. The three suspects then left the scene in the car. Video of the scene confirmed the witness narrative, the complaint states.

Investigators said they found nine discharged casings at the scene.

The complaint states an informant identified the woman as Rayford, who was cited while driving the Fusion about three weeks before the shooting. The Fusion was a rental, and was returned two days after the shooting.

The informant also identified McCaleb-Robinson as a suspect. Gas station footage from before the shooting showed him wearing a blue hoodie, according to the complaint. Cellphone data from both McCaleb-Robinson and Rayford placed them at the shooting location, as well as other stops including both suspects’ homes.

The complaint states the killings of Robinson and Williams were “a continuation of the rivalry between gangs that operate in ‘the Highs’ versus ‘the Lows’ of the city of Minneapolis.” McCaleb-Robinson is allegedly affiliated with the Lows, while one of the victims was a known member of the Highs.

McCaleb-Robinson and Rayford are both in custody.

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Police say a woman was fatally shot while inside an RV in north Minneapolis Tuesday morning.

Just before 10 a.m., the Minneapolis Police Department responded to the 1300 block of Girard Avenue North.

A woman in her 40s had a gunshot wound. Lifesaving measures were attempted, but she died at the scene, police said.

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According to police, the woman and a man were inside the RV when they heard gunshots. The woman then realized she had been hit.

A vehicle left the scene just after the shooting, police said.

Police do not believe the shooting was random.