Three men were shot and killed in separate incidents during a six-hour span in St. Paul on Thursday night into Friday morning.
The homicides happened on a street in the North End on Thursday night, early Friday during a domestic dispute in Frogtown and before dawn Friday on a downtown St. Paul light-rail platform.
The shootings came at a time of a continuing spike in gun violence in the Twin Cities and the nation, and brought the homicides in St. Paul to 18 this year. There were 12 at this time last year and 38 homicides in total in 2021 — the most on record in St. Paul.
Mayor Melvin Carter wrote on Twitter Friday that he is “dismayed by the violence our city endured last night; this is not who we are. My heart is with the victims’ families, as well as all our neighbors who are traumatized and exhausted by these cycles of gun violence we’ve endured for far too long.”
He said officers “will pursue every lead,” adding that “no one is better at solving these crimes than” St. Paul police. Of 17 homicides being investigated by St. Paul police this year, they’ve had an 88 percent clearance rate, according to the police department.
Solving the cases, however, “won’t solve the problem or give us back these stolen lives,” Carter wrote. “Our work to build a more comprehensive, coordinated and data driven approach to public safety is more urgent than ever.”
MAN KILLED ON LIGHT-RAIL PLATFORM
Metro Transit police are investigating the homicide that happened 4:30 a.m. Friday at the Green Line Central Station on Fifth Street between Cedar and Minnesota streets in St. Paul.
Officers who responded to a report of shots fired found a man on the platform with gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police were still looking for a suspect as of Friday afternoon. The investigation is underway into what led to the shooting, said Drew Kerr, Metro Transit spokesperson.
Central Station was closed for nearly six hours, with replacement bus service provided between Union Depot and Robert Street stations, before the light-rail returned to regular service.
SHOOTING DURING DOMESTIC DISPUTE
Also on Friday, a woman called 911 at 12:15 a.m. and reported a man had been shot inside a car near Sherburne Avenue and Mackubin Street.
Paramedics transported the man, who was in his 30s, to Regions Hospital and he was rushed into surgery, but he died about three hours after he was shot, said Steve Linders, St. Paul police spokesman.
Police took a 28-year-old woman into custody and she was booked into the Ramsey County jail on suspicion of aggravated assault before the man died. She was being held as investigators work to determine what led to the shooting, Linders said.
MAN FOUND SHOT IN STREET
On Thursday at 10:30 p.m., officers responded to multiple 911 callers who reported hearing gunshots on the 200 block of West Maryland Avenue. Police located a victim near the intersection of Maryland Avenue and Matilda Street, and officers began CPR, according to police.
Paramedics pronounced the man dead at the scene.
No one was immediately under arrest and homicide investigators asked anyone with information to call them at 651-266-5650.
At the scene of the homicide, Linders talked to a man who asked him what happened.
“I told him somebody had been shot and killed, and he shook his head and looked at the ground and said, ‘This has to stop,'” Linders said. “I said, ‘We agree.’ … It takes a toll on our neighborhoods and people who live there, and we all need to work together.”
Homicides in the U.S. in 2020 increased nearly 30 percent over the previous year, the largest one-year jump since the FBI began keeping records, according to figures released last year. Though, the national rate of 7.8 homicides per 100,000 people was 22 percent below the rate of 1991 and well below rates recorded in much of the 1970s and 1980s, the Pew Research Center reported.
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