ST PAUL, Minn. — Two people are now facing charges in connection to a fatal shooting in St. Paul on Aug. 2.
Officers were called to the 90 block of Manitoba Avenue West late Wednesday night, where they found a 21-year-old man inside an apartment who had been shot and killed.
A second person at the scene was grazed by a bullet and hospitalized. Court documents filed in Ramsey County identified that person as 22-year-old Damound Franks, of Maple Grove, who was later charged with second-degree manslaughter, receiving stolen property and possession of a firearm while being convicted of a violent crime in connection to the shooting.
According to a criminal complaint, witnesses told police that Franks and the victim were "playing with the guns" and "pointing the guns at each other" when the weapon fired. Franks had a Sig Sauer and the victim had a Smith & Wesson.
Another person, 20-year-old Andrea Thomas, was charged with aiding an offender/accomplice after the fact and aiding an offender to avoid arrest or harbor/conceal. Court documents allege someone in the apartment gave Thomas a backpack after the gun went off and told her to leave with it. Thomas had tried to dispose of the backpack in some bushes near the apartment complex, according to the complaint. Police eventually recovered the Sig Sauer firearm from the backpack. which was reported stolen out of Sartell in July.
The St. Paul police asked the public to call their homicide unit at 651-255-5650 with any information on the shooting. The Ramsey County Medical Examiner will identify the victim who died at the scene.
This is a developing story and will be updated as new information is released.
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