ST PAUL, Minn. — Editor's note: The video above originally aired on Oct. 12, 2021.
St. Paul police are on the scene of the city's latest homicide, a domestic situation they say unfolded between a man and his mother.
Squads were dispatched to the 600 block of Cook Avenue East around 4 a.m. Wednesday on reports of an assault. When officers arrived they found the victim, a 61-year-old woman who had been fatally beaten. St. Paul fire medics arrived on scene and pronounced the victim dead without transporting her to the hospital.
The woman's 38-year-old son was arrested on scene, and is currently in police custody on probable cause second-degree murder.
Police say this morning's death marks the city's 33rd homicide of 2021.
KARE 11 is following this developing story and will have additional details as they become available.