Authorities are searching for a man who they say is “armed and dangerous” and is charged with murdering a St. Paul man at a Minneapolis park in July.
An arrest warrant was issued for Seneca Lee Jones, 27, in the shooting death of 19-year-old Darnell Hawkins Mapp. Mapp was found with multiple gunshot wounds in Mississippi Regional Park in July.
Jones is charged with second-degree murder and prohibited possession of ammunition or a firearm after a prior offense. The criminal complaint gives his address as Brooklyn Park, but says police searched his home in Apple Valley.
The complaint, which was unsealed Friday, gave the following details from prosecutors:
At about 3:10 a.m. on July 20, police received reports of a shooting at the park. When they arrived there was a large group of people yelling and “frantically” running around the area.
An unresponsive man who had been shot was sitting on the ground with his back against a parked car. Lifesaving measures were attempted, but he died at the scene.
The man was later identified as Mapp.
Witnesses said Mapp and Jones had been “in a feud” over stolen property the night of the shooting. Several witnesses told police that Jones allegedly shot Mapp from behind multiple times as the younger man was walking away from him.
During the execution of a search warrant, detectives found that Jones had allegedly called his wife more than 50 times in the hour after the shooting. In addition, location data on his phone showed him at the park at the time of the shooting and that he left shortly after, the complaint said.
The search warrant also yielded two handguns, ammunition and firearm magazines in Jones’ Apple Valley home. Jones has “multiple prior felonies that prohibit him from possessing a firearm, including convictions for first-degree burglary and for having a firearm after being prohibited, according to the complaint.
The complaint said Jones’ whereabouts are unknown but he is believed to be “armed and dangerous and a significant threat to public safety.”
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