Last week’s fatal shooting of a St. Paul man in the city’s West Seventh neighborhood was a planned robbery, according to charges.
Antavarius Scott Baker, 38, of Minneapolis, was charged Monday by warrant in Ramsey County District Court with two counts of second-degree murder in connection with the Feb. 2 killing of David Lee Turner III, 23. Baker is in custody in Hennepin County on charges in an unrelated case.
The alleged shooter, Eithan Armani Green, 29, of Minneapolis, was charged Friday with second-degree murder and possession of a firearm by an ineligible person.
According to the criminal complaints, police found Turner shot in the driver’s seat of a Dodge Durango in the 100 block of Oneida Street just after 10 p.m. He was pronounced dead at the scene, and an autopsy showed eight gunshot wounds.
Officers processed the Durango and recovered eight spent 9mm casings, three spent .40-caliber casings and nearly three pounds of marijuana.
In an initial interview with St. Paul police, Baker said he and Green had previously bought marijuana from Turner, and that both he and Green had used his phone to text Turner about buying marijuana from him.
Baker said Green got into Turner’s Durango. He then heard two different guns fire. Green ran back to their car and said, “I shot him,” the man told police, according to the complaint.
Green was also shot, and Baker dropped him off at Regions Hospital with gunshot wounds to his abdomen and leg
Later, in a second interview, Baker was confronted about text messages between him and Green that alluded to previous robberies. When asked if he knew Green was going to rob Turner, Baker admitted, “Yes, I knew it, but I didn’t know he was going to kill him though.”
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