Woman shot and killed, man arrested in West St. Paul

Police heard a gunshot as they responded to a domestic disturbance call.

September 5, 2020 at 10:26PM

A woman died and a man was arrested after a shooting in West St. Paul Friday night.

Responding to a report of a domestic disturbance in an apartment building at 2045 Christensen Av., officers arrived at the scene and heard a gunshot outside the building. They found the woman in the parking lot with a gunshot wound to the head.

Police immediately encountered the suspect, a 21-year-old West St. Paul man. He was booked into the Dakota County jail on suspicion of second-degree murder.

The woman died at the scene. A firearm was found nearby, police said.

The victim's name will be released by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office after an autopsy, police said.

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Katy Read writes for the Minnesota Star Tribune's Inspired section. She previously covered Carver County and western Hennepin County as well as aging, workplace issues and other topics since she began at the paper in 2011.

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