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Family ‘getting along’ outside Twin Cities home before one cousin fatally shoots another, charge says

The 24-year-old victim was shot multiple times, police said.

The Minnesota Star Tribune
June 24, 2025 at 1:05PM
Andy Tapia Negrete (With permission from GoFundMe)

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.”

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According to the complaint filed against Negrete:

Residential video showed Exon Alfonzo Sanchez Garzon opening fire outside a Bloomington home on June 22, 2025. (Provided by the Bloomington Police Department)

About 6:45 a.m., police responded to the report of a shooting and saw a wounded Negrete down near the driveway. Officers attempted life-saving measures, but he was declare dead at the scene.

An uncle who owns the home where Negrete was living told police that Negrete and other young men were drinking in the driveway, and “everyone seemed to be getting along until an argument started [that] led to a fight,” then gunfire, the complaint read.

Home surveillance video showed Negrete in a chair while getting punched several times by a man who came to the home with Sanchez Garzon. More fighting broke out, and Sanchez Garzon walked behind a van in the driveway and back toward the combatants.

Sanchez Garzon joined in the fighting, then drew a handgun from a cross-body bag and fired three shots at Negrete. He took a stepped back and fired five more times at Negrete before fleeing on foot.

During the arrest of Sanchez Garzon and his girlfriend, she told police that she picked him up in Minneapolis, and “he was crying and said he killed his cousin,” the complaint noted.

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