A St. Paul man has pleaded guilty to attempted murder after shooting at a Ramsey County sheriff’s deputy during a pursuit last year on St. Paul’s East Side.
Trevion Armand Figgs, 21, was a passenger in a Honda Accord and fired at least three bullets from an assault rifle at Deputy Joe Kill, who was struck with shrapnel near his right collar bone in the March 2024 incident. He was transported to Regions Hospital for minor injuries.
A plea agreement Figgs reached with the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office last week includes a 12½-year prison term at sentencing and the dismissal of the remaining charges: first-degree assault of a peace officer and drive-by shooting.
Trevion Armand Figgs (Courtesy of the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office)
Figgs remains jailed in lieu of $1.3 million bail ahead of sentencing, which has yet to be scheduled.
According to the criminal complaint, St. Paul police officers saw someone, later identified as a 17-year-old, driving a Honda Accord recklessly at Payne Avenue and Jessamine Street around 10:45 p.m. March 1, 2024. The officers tried to pull him over, but he sped away.
A short time later, Kill saw the Accord and noticed that two people were in it. When the teen blew through a red light at Payne Avenue and Seventh Street, Kill turned on his emergency lights and siren and began pursuit.
As the Accord headed east on Euclid Street, the front-seat passenger, who wore a face mask and was later identified as Figgs, leaned out of the car, sat on the door frame and fired a tan-colored assault rifle at the deputy, who was 25 to 30 yards behind.
Kill swerved his squad to the left, stopped in the 900 block of Euclid Street and took cover under the driver compartment. Kill thought three shots were fired at him.
Two bullet fragments were recovered from the front floor of the deputy’s squad car. His ballistic vest showed a scuff mark on its upper right consistent with being struck by an object.
Surveillance video audio from the neighborhood recorded approximately “three to five gunshot-like noises,” the complaint says. Officers found two .223-caliber rifle casings in the middle of Euclid Street.
Officers searched the area and found the Accord unoccupied and parked in an alley in the 1000 block of Pacific Street. Surveillance video showed the car in the alley around 10:50 p.m., then two people running east.
A search of the car turned up two more spent .223-caliber rifle casings. Paperwork showed the teen driver was in the process of buying the car.
Further investigation showed a close relationship between the teen and Figgs, whose house is in the area where the car was found.
Investigators then received information from Figgs’ Snapchat account. It showed that an account associated with the teen sent Figgs a photo of Figgs wearing a black face mask and holding a tan assault rifle consistent with the one described by the deputy.
Officers executed a search warrant at Figgs’ home and arrested him. In an upper bedroom, officers recovered a tan AR-style rifle stock, a Polymer 80 handgun, a debit card in the teen’s name and loose .223- and 9mm-caliber ammunition.
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Three days before the case was filed against Figgs, prosecutors charged him by a sealed complaint with attempted murder stemming from a June 2023 shooting on the city’s East Side. Prosecutors say Figgs fired nearly 30 rounds at an SUV, one of which struck a 19-year-old man in the back. The case is pending.
In December, the teen driver was adjudicated delinquent — the juvenile version of being found guilty — of aiding and abetting first-degree assault of a peace officer. He was placed on extended jurisdiction juvenile prosecution under the condition that he complete a long-term treatment program at the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Red Wing. An adult sentence of just over seven years was stayed pending completion of the juvenile term, which ends when he turns 21.
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