A man has been sentenced to six years in prison for shooting and wounding three people in St. Paul — his girlfriend, her cousin and a 64-year-old man out for a walk with his dog — before climbing onto a roof to get away from officers.
Jaleel Jackson-Bey, 36, was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty in Ramsey County District Court to two counts of second-degree assault in connection with the 2023 incident in the area of Cliff and Superior streets, off West Seventh Street.
Jaleel Jackson-Bey (Courtesy of the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office)
Officers were called to the area about 9:15 p.m. June 21, 2023, on reports of gunfire and found three people shot. A 25-year-old woman, Jackson-Bey’s girlfriend, was wounded in her leg, knee and wrist. A 22-year-old man, who the girlfriend said is her cousin, was shot through his foot. A man who lives in the area had substantial bleeding from his leg and a dog leash was being used as a tourniquet.
The man said he was walking his dog when he noticed several people come out of a home and yell “in what appeared to be a domestic argument,” the charges said. He kept walking, heard “two firecracker sounds” and then realized he’d been shot in the leg.
Jackson-Bey’s girlfriend’s sister said Jackson-Bey was visiting them. She saw her sister and Jackson-Bey arguing outside and then Jackson-Bey fired rounds at her sister and the rest of the family. She said he continued to fire even as the family ran into the home for safety.
Jackson-Bey had run from the scene and was later found a half-mile away on top of the Salvation Army’s roof. Police used “less lethal munitions” to take him into custody about 2:30 a.m. A gun was in his pocket, with a single live round in the magazine.
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