A man and his sister were charged this week in the fatal shooting of a 49-year-old St. Paul man.
Ryshaun Ca’Mia Rhodes (Courtesy of the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office)
Derek Alonzo Mitchell, of Belton, Missouri, and Ryshaun Ca’Mia Rhodes, of Brooklyn Park, were charged with aiding and abetting second-degree unintentional murder in the shooting of Michael D. Tucker, according to court documents.
Officers responded to a report of shots fired in the 900 block of Edgerton Street in St. Paul’s Payne-Phalen neighborhood on Dec. 4, where they found a man with an apparent gunshot injury to the upper torso, according to police.
Officers rendered first aid and called for medics, but the man, later identified as Tucker, was pronounced dead before arriving at Regions Hospital, according to police.
Rhodes, 36, was charged Wednesday. Mitchell, 35, was charged Thursday. Bail was set for each at $1 million.
Derek Alonzo Mitchell (Courtesy of the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office)
According to the complaint, investigators believe Tucker had agreed to buy $700 worth of cocaine from Rhodes, but first he wanted to try a sample. Tucker allegedly left to try the sample, then returned to complain about the quality.
During an argument in what police have identified as Rhodes’ vehicle, Tucker allegedly brandished a firearm and “tried to rob Rhodes” of the cocaine.
The complaint alleges that this is when Rhodes pulled her own black and purple Taurus and fired. Another version of the events states that Mitchell asked Rhodes for her gun and fired once through the open passenger door. “Mitchell said he didn’t even know he had shot (Tucker),” the complaint states.
Rhodes told police, “I didn’t have anything to do with that man being hurt, and that’s the God’s honest truth,” per the complaint.
Both Rhodes and Mitchell denied the case involved drugs.
Rhodes’ attorney couldn’t immediately be reached for comment Thursday afternoon. An attorney for Mitchell wasn’t listed in the court file.
The homicide was the 13th of the year in St. Paul.
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