Charges filed in the fatal shooting of a St. Paul man on Monday night allege both he and the gunman fired several rounds during a marijuana deal that went awry.

Eithan Armani Green, 29, of Minneapolis, was charged Friday by warrant in Ramsey County District Court with second-degree murder and possession of a firearm by an ineligible person in connection with the killing of David Lee Turner III, 23, in the West Seventh neighborhood of St. Paul.

Green was dropped off by a man at Regions Hospital shortly after the shooting with gunshot wounds to his abdomen and leg, the criminal complaint said. He remained hospitalized Friday in serious but stable condition.

A case against another man is under review for possible charges, a spokesman for the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office said Friday.

According to the complaint, police found Turner shot and slumped over in the driver’s seat of a Dodge Durango in the 100 block of Oneida Street just after 10 p.m. He had no pulse and wasn’t breathing, and was pronounced dead at the scene. An autopsy showed eight gunshot wounds, including to his face, neck and chest.

Officers processed the Durango and recovered eight spent 9mm casings, three spent .40-caliber casings and nearly three pounds of marijuana.

Video surveillance from a nearby home showed the Durango and a Ford Escape pulled up on Oneida Street, between Superior and Michigan streets, at separate times.

A man, later identified as Green, got out of the Escape and into the Durango’s front passenger seat, the complaint said. Shots rang out a short time later, with windows on both sides of the Durango shattering.

A man wearing a dark-colored jacket ran from the Escape’s back passenger seat to the Durango and began rummaging through it. Green got out, “hopped around” and ran back to Escape’s front passenger seat. A driver of the SUV then drove away with Green, leaving the other man behind.

‘I shot him’

Officers were sent to Regions Hospital shortly after the shooting on a report of a man who’d been dropped off with gunshot wounds to his abdomen and leg. He didn’t have a wallet or a cellphone, but police identified him as Green.

Investigators found a phone number for Green, and records showed the phone was in the area at the time of Turner’s killing, then near Regions and Minneapolis, the complaint said.

Investigators discovered that Green’s phone was “pinging” in the area of the Minneapolis Police Department’s Fourth Precinct on the city’s North Side. They learned a man was arrested Tuesday in Minneapolis after driving Green’s car, where officers found a .380-caliber handgun and two cellphones. The man said one of the phones belonged to a friend.

In an interview, the man told investigators that 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, the complaint said.

The man said he drove the Escape, which belonged to Green’s girlfriend, to the meet-up spot the night of the shooting. He gave Green $350 to buy the drug, and Green got out and into the Durango. He then heard two different guns fire. Green ran back to the Escape and said, “I shot him,” the man told police, according to the complaint.

“(The man) asked what Green did to make (Turner) shoot him, but Green just asked (the man) to take him to the hospital,” the complaint read.

The man said he drove Green to Regions in the Escape and that Green left a Taurus 9mm handgun and his phone in the SUV before walking into the hospital. Officers later recovered the gun at an apartment belonging to the man’s girlfriend, the complaint said.

Green denied knowing Turner

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In an interview with investigators, Green said he was drunk and high and couldn’t recall how he was shot and where, the complaint said.

He denied shooting anyone and said he didn’t own a gun. He denied knowing Turner.

According to the complaint, when investigators told him the shooting was on video, he said, “I’m shot” and “Who shot me?”

Court records show Green has several felony convictions, all out of St. Louis County, including for first-degree robbery and fifth-degree drug possession in 2014; felony domestic assault in 2017; and aiding and abetting first-degree robbery in 2019.

By JULIE WATSON, Associated Press

SAN DIEGO (AP) — At least three people have died and three others have required liver transplants after eating the aptly named Death Cap mushroom that is proliferating in California following a rainy winter.

The California Department of Public Health is urging people to avoid mushroom foraging altogether this year because Death Cap mushrooms are easily confused with safe, edible varieties.

Since Nov. 18 there have been at least three dozen cases of mushroom poisonings reported, according to the health department. Many who sought medical attention suffered from rapidly evolving acute liver injury and liver failure. Several patients required admission to an intensive care unit. They have ranged in age from 19 months to 67 years old.

“This greatly exceeds the typical report of less than 5 cases of mushroom poisonings a year,” the department said in its public health warning.

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Experts warn that a mushroom’s color is not a reliable way of detecting its toxicity, and whether the Death Cap variety is raw, dried or cooked, does not make a difference.

Laura Marcelino told the San Francisco Chronicle that her family in the Northern California town of Salinas gathered mushrooms that looked like the ones she and her husband used to forage in their native Oaxaca, a state in Southern Mexico.

“We thought it was safe,” Marcelino, 36, said in Spanish.

Her husband was dizzy and tired the next day, but Marcelino felt fine, and they ate the mushrooms again, heating them up in a soup with tortillas. Their kids don’t like mushrooms and so didn’t have any. The next day, both adults, seasonal farmworkers, became ill with vomiting and stayed home from work.

Marcelino spent five days in the hospital, while her husband had to undergo a liver transplant.

People can have stomach cramping, nausea, diarrhea or vomiting within 24 hours after ingesting a toxic mushroom and the situation can quickly deteriorate after that, experts say. Early symptoms may also go away within a day, but serious to fatal liver damage can still develop within 2 to 3 days.

Death Cap mushrooms have been collected in local and national parks across Northern California and the Central Coast. Clusters have been identified in the Monterey and San Francisco Bay areas as well.

The public health department said those poisoned have included many Spanish, Mixteco, and Mandarin Chinese speakers and the state in response has expanded their warnings in different languages.

Children have been among those poisoned this year. Officials advise keeping an eye on children and pets outside where mushrooms grow, and buying mushrooms from trusted grocery stores and sellers.

Treatment is more difficult once symptoms start so doctors advise people to seek medical care once someone becomes aware that they have eaten a poisonous mushroom or suspect they have.

Craig Smollin, medical director for the San Francisco division of the California Poison Control System (CPCS) and an emergency medicine professor at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, said that death cap mushrooms tend to flourish between November and March in the state, though not usually to this extent.

NUUK, Greenland (AP) — Canada and France opened diplomatic consulates on Friday in the capital of Greenland, showing support for NATO ally Denmark and the Arctic island in the wake of U.S. efforts to secure control of the semiautonomous Danish territory.

Canada’s maple-leaf flag went up and dozens of people sang “O Canada” as Foreign Minister Anita Anand officially opened the country’s consulate in Nuuk, which is also the largest city of the icy Arctic island.

“The significance of raising this flag today and formally opening the consulate is that we will stand together with the people of Greenland and Denmark on many issues,” she said.

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Anand cited deepening ties on defense, security, climate change, economic resilience and Arctic co-operation.

France’s Foreign Ministry said Jean-Noël Poirier was taking up his duties as consul general on Friday, making it the first European Union country to establish a consulate general in Greenland.

Greenland’s Sermitsiaq reported that Poirier had arrived Friday along with Canada’s delegation, but said the consul doesn’t yet have a physical consulate.

Poirier will be “tasked with working to deepen existing cooperation projects with Greenland in the cultural, scientific, and economic fields, while also strengthening political ties with the local authorities,” the ministry said.

France says the decision to open its outpost was made when President Emmanuel Macron visited in June.

Canada pledged to open a consulate in Greenland in 2024, before Trump’s recent talk of a takeover, and the formal inauguration was delayed from November because of bad weather.

U.S. President Donald Trump announced last month he would slap new tariffs on Denmark and seven other European countries that opposed his takeover calls, only to abruptly drop his threats. He said a “framework” for a deal had been reached over access to mineral-rich Greenland was reached. Few details of that agreement have emerged.

Last week, technical talks started between the U.S., Denmark and Greenland toward an Arctic security deal. The foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland had agreed to create a working group during a meeting with U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio before Trump made his tariff threats.

Seventeen New Yorkers have died outdoors in recent weeks amid freezing temperatures, which are expected to dip again this weekend. Local homeless advocates urged the city Friday to flood the streets with extra outreach workers.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani joined a a homeless outreach team in Manhattan on Tuesday amid freezing temperatures. (Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office)

Seventeen people have died outdoors in New York City over the last two weeks amid a stretch of unusually cold weather—and with frigid temperatures on the way again, homeless advocates are urging the city to deploy more outreach teams to bring unhoused people inside.

“With this weekend’s wind chills expected to fall well below zero, the City must immediately bolster measures to prevent further loss of life,” The Legal Aid Society and the Coalition for the Homeless said in a joint statement Friday.

This should include, “flooding the streets with additional outreach workers,” the groups said, expanding capacity at warming centers and drop-in sites, and ensuring people can access shelter even if they don’t have a government ID. They also called for “clear communication with all public and private hospitals” about allowing unhoused people to seek refuge in emergency and waiting rooms during what’s known as a “Code Blue” emergency.

“Hospitals must coordinate with the Department of Homeless Services to ensure that no one without a warm place to go is discharged or released to the streets, regardless of health status,” the advocates said. “More lives are at stake.”

Since Jan. 19, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Wednesday, the city’s outreach teams have placed more than 1,100 people into shelters or Safe Havens—facilities with fewer restrictions to entry, often preferred by unhoused New Yorkers who’ve had bad experiences with traditional shelters and are reluctant to enter the system. The city opened one such facility early this week in response to the cold, adding 106 single-room occupancy beds in lower Manhattan.

Emergency responders removed 20 people to hospitals involuntarily, the mayor said. The city also expanded its number of warming centers and mobile warming buses (locations can be found here.) “We will continue to do everything in our power to get every New Yorker into a shelter where they will be safe and they will be warm,” Mamdani said.

The City Council will hold an oversight hearing on Tuesday to examine the administration’s response to the extreme cold. The weather also prompted the Department of Homeless Services to twice postpone its annual HOPE count, in which volunteers canvas the city to track the number of New Yorkers sleeping on its streets.

“It’s tough. It’s freezing out here,” said Rose Williams, who said she’s been street homeless for the last 10 years.

Williams doesn’t trust the shelter system and is reluctant to share her personal information with city workers. She told a City Limits reporter who was accompanying an outreach team that she might consider entering a Safe Haven.

But for now, she’s been sleeping on the E train with a friend, Michael, and the two look out for one another to stay safe. “Everybody says ‘stay warm!’ Where are we going to stay warm at?” Williams said. “It’s nice they say that but … you know.”

Here’s what else happened in housing this week—

ICYMI, from City Limits:

The cold stretch has also led city tenants to lodge a record-high number of complaints for lack of heat and hot water. During the last week of January, 30,000 tenants called in, the most heat complaints ever recorded in a seven-day period, according to City Limits’ reporting.

Residents at NYCHA’s Isaacs Houses will start voting next week on what funding model they want for their development.

More than 700 homes at Beach 41st Street Houses in Rockaway will switch to electric heating and cooling, which officials say will reduce pollution and offer more reliable service than NYCHA’s aging, fossil fuel-powered boilers. 

ICYMI, from other local newsrooms:

The rise in cold-related deaths prompted calls for Mamdani to revisit his decision to end city “sweeps” of public homeless encampments. But the new mayor told Gothamist that none of the recent fatalities have been people living in encampments, and reiterated his criticism of “sweeps” as ineffective.

The city is moving ahead with a new rule that critics say will make it harder for people to enter Safe Haven shelters, The City reports.

How Pinnacle’s bankruptcy “triggered a citywide wave of tenant organizing,” via Jacobin.

Tenants and advocates are pushing state leaders to increase funding for supportive housing programs in the upcoming budget, WRGB Albany reports.

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