A 16-year-old boy, who is already in jail, was charged Tuesday with shooting and killing a man in St. Paul in mid-October.
The teenager is facing two counts of second-degree murder, according to the juvenile petition filed in Ramsey County District Court. St. Paul resident Marcus Darnell Miller, 24, died in the shooting, and prosecutors are seeking to try the teen as an adult, which would mean a more severe sentence should he be convicted .
Police responded Oct. 11 to reports of 15 to 20 gunshots and a man shot in the stomach around 6:35 p.m. near the intersection of Edmund Avenue W. and Grotto Street N.
Officers found Miller lying next to his car, slipping in and out of consciousness, with a gunshot wound in his back chest area, according to the charging document. Miller was transported to Regions Hospital where he was pronounced dead a little before 7 p.m.
Several witnesses, including Miller's girlfriend, told officers they were walking to Willard's Liquor when a vehicle with two young men wearing facemasks inside drove onto the sidewalk and cut them off.
The occupants of the vehicle had handguns and one of them searched Miller's pockets.
They told Miller he owed people money, and the driver began shooting at Miller, according to the court filings. As he ran away, both suspects continued to shoot at Miller.
Miller fell to the ground twice as he fled and then collapsed by his vehicle. The two suspects returned to their car and fled through an alley.
