A grand jury has indicted a 36-year-old man in the April fatal shooting of his 72-year-old roommate in their South St. Paul apartment, the Dakota County Attorney’s Office said Thursday.
The indictment charges Jacob John Audie, 36, with one count each of first-degree murder and second-degree intentional murder in connection with the killing of Michael Maurice Schille at an apartment building on 12th Avenue off Thompson Avenue.
Jacob John Audie (Courtesy of the Dakota County Sheriff’s Office)
Audie was previously charged with second-degree intentional murder, not premeditated.
According to the criminal complaint, Audie called 911 about 8:45 p.m. April 11 and reported that he had shot Schille. Schille was found in the back bedroom with a television remote in his hand; he had a gunshot wound to the side of his face. He was declared dead.
Police arrested Audie in the apartment building’s parking lot. He gave a statement to police, saying he lived with Schille for the last year or two. He said he helped care for Schille and clean the apartment.
Audie said he used Schille’s AR-15 rifle to shoot the man once in the cheek area in Schille’s bedroom, according to the complaint, which doesn’t give a motive for the shooting. Officers located an AR-style rifle in the living room.
Audie remains in custody at the Dakota County jail in lieu of $1 million bail ahead of his next court hearing scheduled for Tuesday.
If convicted of first-degree murder, he faces the mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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