BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. — Editor's Note: The attached video first aired on Feb. 19, 2024.
A Brooklyn Park man faces multiple felony charges after a shooting in Brooklyn Park claimed the life of a woman on Monday afternoon.
James Allen Nedeau II is charged with three counts of second-degree murder with intent- not premeditated.
According to a criminal complaint, a woman called 911 on Feb. 19, asking police to respond to the office of an apartment complex because a man, Nedeau, had slapped his father and then screamed that he was going to kill her.
The call then captured 18 shots being fired while a man screamed "f___k you!" officials said.
Officers quickly responded to the scene and found the body of a victim, later identified as 29-year-old Deana Cathlene Doely, who had been shot multiple times.
While on scene, officers said they learned the person they believed was responsible for the shooting had gone to the apartment's fifth floor and shot another person. Police went upstairs, smelled fresh gunpowder and found that six rounds had been fired into the door of an elderly woman's apartment.
The woman was unharmed. She was able to duck under her dining room table as the shots were fired into her home, shattering her door. Officials said that police learned the suspect fled the complex after firing this second round of shots.
Nedeau's father told police that he had gone to visit his son's apartment when they got into an argument. He said his son hit him in the face and pointed a gun at him while threatening to kill him. The father said he pushed the gun aside and tried to go to the apartment's office. Nedeau followed him, allegedly yelling "I'm going to kill all you motherf___ckers!".
He was uninjured in the shooting.
While police were searching for Nedeau at the apartment building, he called 911 and said he had killed someone and wanted to turn himself in, according to court documents. Officers went to his location where they saw him sitting on a curb, police said. Nedeau stood up, placed his gun on the ground and cooperated as he was taken into custody.
Police learned that before he called 911, the suspected shooter was at a nearby family member's house where he told them he did something bad and left his backpack, containing three guns, two 9mm and a 40mm, plus ammo and several gun parts.
Court documents said that during the booking process jail staff struggled with the fingerprinting machine due to the suspect's sweaty hands. He told them "Yeah, I just killed someone," the documents read.
Nedeau also told police that he "just lost it" after arguing and hitting his father, and because the woman in the apartment's office was going to call the police. He said he didn't have an excuse for taking her life as he had wanted to kill his father and the apartment manager, court documents said.
Two different guns were used in the shooting, Nedeau told police. He used a 9 mm in the initial shooting, then switched to a 40mm while shooting into the eldery woman's apartment since his first gun ran out of ammunition. According to court documents, he told police that following the shooting, he realized he had done something wrong and wanted to turn himself in. He went on to tell police "that he should have just gone up to his apartment and smoked a blunt instead of shooting everyone."
When police executed a search warrant on his apartment, police found a gun with no serial number, a P80 handgun jig, nine firearm jigs and various firearm parts.
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