ST PAUL, Minn. — Police say a suspect is in custody in connection with a triple homicide that took place Sunday in St. Paul's Payne-Phalen neighborhood.
According to a press release from the St. Paul Police Department, a 41-year-old Minneapolis man was arrested Wednesday morning in Chicago and is awaiting charges. KARE 11 doesn't name suspects who haven't been charged.
The Ramsey County attorney’s office is currently reviewing the case for potential charges.
The shooting occurred around 4:30 p.m. Sunday on the 900 block of Case Avenue. Police found five people with gunshots wounds, including three that died at the scene.
The Ramsey County Medical Examiner identifies the victims as 33-year-old Angelica Gonzales, 42-year-old Cory Freeman and 44-year-old Maisha Spaulding, all from St. Paul. Police added that the two injured victims are now in stable condition and are both adults.
At the time of the shootings, the suspect in custody was under the supervision of the Hennepin County Department of Community Corrections and Rehabilitation after being released from prison for a drug case, according to state Department of Corrections records.
He was charged in 2017 with third-degree sale of cocaine and fifth-degree possession of cocaine in Minneapolis. A jury found him guilty and he was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported.
Minnesota court records show the man was also convicted in 2014 of assault causing substantial bodily harm and misdemeanor domestic assault, along with burglary of an occupied dwelling in 2012. Both of those charges came in Dakota County.
Records also indicate he was convicted three times of violating orders for protection or domestic assault no-contact orders stemming from two cases in 2013 and one in 2014.
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