Police found a man fatally shot in a vehicle in St. Paul Thursday night and investigators are looking for the shooter.
Officers responded to the 1300 block of Wilson Avenue in the Dayton’s Bluff neighborhood just before 11 p.m. after multiple people called 911. The callers reported hearing gunshots and seeing vehicles leave the area, said Sgt. Mike Ernster, a police spokesman.
Police discovered a damaged vehicle in the middle of the road, but no victims. It appeared the damage was from a crash, Ernster said.
Other officers responding to Wilson Avenue noticed a vehicle being driven erratically about a mile away on Minnehaha Avenue near Frank Street. They stopped the vehicle and found a man, apparently a passenger, with gunshot injuries, Ernster said. That vehicle also appeared to have recently been in a crash.
Police called for paramedics and started giving aid to the man, but he died at the scene.
“It’s a complex case in the sense that we have two crime scenes” to collect evidence from and two neighborhoods to canvas for witnesses — on Wilson Avenue and where police found the victim, Ernster said.
No one was under arrest as of early Friday. “We do need the public’s help,” Ernster said. Investigators are asking anyone with information to call them at 651-266-5650.
The homicide was St. Paul’s fourth of the year. There were seven as of this time last year.
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