Just before midnight Wednesday, March 24, police responded to the Stop N Shop at 1700 E. Lake St. after the report of gunshots and a victim who was struck in the head.
Officers arrived and found the victim, identified in charging documents only as "R.D.," lying on his back with a pool of blood under his head. He had a gunshot wound to the right eye and officers were not able to regain his pulse. He died a short time later at HCMC.
A witness told investigators she & the victim were friends and he had come from St. Cloud to help her move. They stopped just before midnight to grab a soda, she told investigators, when R.D. may have brushed past Stubblefield in the store and the two got into a verbal argument.
Stubblefield followed R. D. out of the store and said something to the effect of "don't call me a n---er." R.D. replied that he hadn't said that and Stubblefield spit in his face, the complaint said, before the witness said Stubblefield pulled the trigger and shot R.D.
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ST. PAUL: Threats - 7th St. W & 35E - Female made threats to blow up the gas station. She reportedly told everyone to get out of the store, said she was going to blow the store up, went and grabbed some fuel additives from the shelf and walked out the store.
The woman then told people again she was going to blow the place up and proceeded to pour additives all over pump #2, an officer said, spilling more of it as she walked through the lot and continued walking west.
Squads are checking the area.
The female reportedly stopped inside the Wings Financial and appeared "pretty irate" before leaving again on foot to the west.
NEW COURT DOCS: Prosecutors have charged a Minneapolis man with murder after he allegedly admitted to shooting a man in the face outside a south side gas station this week because the victim called him the 'N-word.' mncrime.com/latest/court-d…
Chaz Eric Stubblefield, 33, of has been charged with 2nd-degree murder for the parking lot slaying of a man in his 40s who has not yet been identified. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison.
In a post-arrest interview, Stubblefield told investigators that after the slight brush in the gas station, he told the victim "you can say excuse me," to which the victim responded, "f--- you, n---er." Stubblefield said R.D. said the word again and pushed him before he fired.
BLOOMINGTON: Carver County deputies were in pursuit of a previously carjacked Camaro, eastbound on 494 around 12:30 p.m. - the driver crashed and bailed near W. Bush Lake Rd. and ran eastbound on the south frontage road.
The suspect was described as a black male wearing a green jacket, black hat and a grey hoodie. Officers from multiple agencies have a perimeter in the area.
The suspect made his way into a building on the 7200 block of W. 78th St. and was believed to be armed.
Officers surrounded the building and helped evacuate employees inside. They successfully detained the man just before 1 p.m. and said the situation was under control.
After a 92-year-old woman had her purse ripped from her arms at a St. Paul laundromat yesterday morning, the victim’s 73-year-old daughter returned to the scene of the crime and set up a stakeout, waiting for hours in hopes of catching the thief. mncrime.com/latest/elderly…
Officers were called around 10:45 a.m. to the laundromat on the 700 block of Milton St. N. after the 92-year-old woman reported a female suspect snuck up behind her, ripped her purse from her arms and ran from the building.
The victim’s 73-year-old gave chase of the purse snatcher, but couldn’t catch up.
About nine hours later and across the street from the same laundromat where the crime occurred, the suspect was found by the daughter inside an apartment building.
ST. PAUL: Disturbance - United Hospital, 333 Smith Ave N. - A naked male was reported to have broken the front door of the hospital and made it into the operating room.
Hospital security trying to get him to leave, requesting SPPD assistance and medics to stand by.
The male has now been detained and medics are standing by in case he needs medical attention.
SPPD squad asking if it's possibly related to a call from earlier today about a person who absconded from Regions.