MINNEAPOLIS — Prosecutors charged a man in the shooting death of his domestic partner Sunday night in the Minneapolis neighborhood of Linden Hills.
Johnny Leroy Brown, 50, of Minneapolis, was charged with two counts of second-degree murder and a third count for possessing a firearm after a conviction.
Officials said around 8 p.m. Sunday, police officers responded to a report of a shooting in the 4200 block of Sheridan Avenue South and found a 43-year-old woman in an apartment building who had been shot.
She later died from her injuries.
The woman's sister, Kena Johnson, identified her as Kesha Moore.
A family member reported that Brown and Moore had been "living together for the past several months and their romantic relationship had been rocky resulting in (Moore) asking (Brown) to move out of the apartment," according to the criminal complaint.
On Monday night, Minneapolis police tracked down Brown in Maple Grove and then conducted a felony traffic stop in Golden Valley near the intersection of Douglas Dr. N and St. Croix Ave.
Brown told investigators that he and Moore got into an argument, and Moore pointed a gun at him. Brown was able to take the gun away, but said he "accidentally bumped the trigger, which resulted in (Moore) being shot in the head," court documents stated.
However, the criminal complaint stated that the trigger would have needed 5 pounds, 5 ounces of pressure, which is "inconsistent with (Brown's) claim that he just bumped the trigger, and the gun went off."
Brown is currently being held in the Hennepin County Jail.
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