A man has been charged with being a killer's getaway driver two days after his arrest for allegedly injuring a pedestrian in a hit-and-run crash in downtown Minneapolis.
Man charged with being getaway driver in fatal shooting near Minneapolis' Loring Park
His arrest came after he allegedly injured a pedestrian over the weekend in a hit-and-run crash in downtown Minneapolis.
February 22, 2023 at 3:12PM
Jal D. Wal, 25, of Apple Valley, was charged Tuesday in Hennepin County District Court with being an accomplice in connection with the fatal shooting near Loring Park in September of Birahim B. Gildersleve, 28, of Rochester, outside an after-hours party at the Fade Barber Lounge.
Wal appeared in court Wednesday afternoon and remains jailed in lieu of $500,000 bailn. A message was left with his attorney seeking a response to the allegations.
According to the charges:
Police were dispatched about 5:20 a.m. on Sept. 18 to the intersection of Harmon Place and Maple Street, where they saw Gildersleve with gunshot wounds to right leg and chest. Emergency responders took him to HCMC, where he was pronounced dead 40 minutes later.
About two hours before the shooting, four people walked from Wal's SUV to the front of the barbershop and then back to the vehicle shortly after 5:10 a.m.
Recordings from a license plate reader and video surveillance revealed that shortly before the shooting a man got out of an SUV owned by Wal and walked to where Gildersleve was standing, and a flash from a gun's muzzle followed. The shooter ran back to the SUV, and Wal drove off.
Law enforcement located the SUV parked outside Wal's home and seized the vehicle. The alleged shooter's fingerprints were lifted from the passenger door. Law enforcement identified him by name as a 26-year-old man from Minneapolis whose "whereabouts are still unknown." As of Wednesday there was no public record of the suspected gunman being charged. The Star Tribune generally does not identify suspects before they are charged.
The criminal complaint filed against Wal does not address a motive for the shooting, Police Sgt. Garrett Parten said in a statement earlier this week that the killing followed "a verbal altercation."
Wal's arrest occurred early Sunday after he injured a pedestrian in a hit-and-run crash in downtown Minneapolis over the weekend, officials said.
Police said they saw the woman being hit shortly before 2:30 a.m. as she was crossing at the intersection of 4th Street N. and 1st Avenue N. Officers pursued and caught up to Wal after he crashed into a parked car a couple of blocks from the hit-and-run.
The woman who was hit was identified in a police report as Andriene J. Poindexter, 41. She suffered noncritical injuries, Parten said.
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