A group of people “seemed to be getting along” while drinking at a Bloomington driveway before a fight erupted and a teenager killed his cousin with repeated gunfire, according a criminal complaint.
Exon Alfonzo Sanchez Garzon, 18, of Richfield, was charged Monday in Hennepin County District Court with second-degree intentional murder stemming from the shooting Sunday morning in the 200 block of W. 92nd Street that left Andy Tapia Negrete, 24, dead outside his home.
Sanchez Garzon was arrested that night during a traffic stop in the Mounds View area with his 18-year-old girlfriend from Maplewood with him. He remains jailed in lieu of $1.5 million bail ahead of a court hearing Tuesday afternoon. Court records do not list an attorney for him.
Also arrested Sunday in connection with the shooting was a 22-year-old man from Burnsville during a traffic stop in Lakeville on suspicion of second-degree assault, and a 43-year-old man from Lakeville at a home in the 16200 block of Florida Avenue on allegations of aiding an offender.
The Star Tribune generally does not identify suspects before they are charged.
“This appears to be a family conflict,” Police Chief Booker Hodges said in a video outlining the case. “These people are all related to each other.”
Hodges added that a second person “self-transported” to a Minneapolis hospital with gunshot wound.
“Andy was a kind, gentle soul who brought joy and laughter to everyone around him,” read an online fund-raising campaign started to help with funeral expenses. “He had a remarkable way of making people feel seen and loved, and his presence lit up every room he entered.”