Police arrested a 14-year-old Tuesday in the fatal stabbing of another teenager in St. Paul last week.

The teen is being held on suspicion of murder in the death of Jay’Mier K. Givens, 19, of St. Paul, said Sgt. Toy Vixayvong, a St. Paul police spokesman.

Givens died the evening of March 31. Officers responding to 911 calls found Givens outside a Dayton’s Bluff residence on Sixth Street near Birmingham Street. Givens, who Vixayvong said wasn’t connected to the residence, was stabbed multiple times and died at the hospital.

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By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top Pentagon official said Tuesday that special operations forces do not have the authority to launch drone attacks at drug cartels in Mexico, even though President Donald Trump has designated them foreign terrorist organizations.

A view from an U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter as it flies along the US-Mexico border as part of Joint Task Force Southern Border Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Douglas, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Colby Jenkins, who is currently working as the assistant defense secretary for special operations, told a Senate committee that Trump’s designation doesn’t automatically give the U.S. military the authority to take direct action against the cartels.

Under questioning from Sen. Elissa Slotkin, a Michigan Democrat, Jenkins said it “helps us unlock the doors” for a broader government approach to the drug problem.

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Slotkin noted that Elon Musk, a top adviser to Trump on overhauling the federal government, has said the foreign terrorist designation means the U.S. can conduct drone strikes against the cartels. Musk posted that on Feb. 19 on X.

Jenkins said it doesn’t, but that now the military can provide options and be ready if Trump needs more done to protect the border.

U.S. Northern Command has increased manned surveillance flights along the U.S.-Mexico border to monitor drug cartels and the movement of fentanyl and is increasing its intelligence sharing with Mexico from those flights, Gen. Gregory Guillot told senators in February.

There are also unmanned U.S. drones conducting surveillance over Mexico’s airspace, according to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.

Trump designated many of the gangs and cartels moving those drugs into the U.S. as foreign terrorist organizations on Feb. 19, further increasing the pressure on their ability to move and providing law enforcement with what the State Department said are “additional tools to stop these groups.”

Guillot, commander of U.S. Northern Command, also told senators that he would seek expanded authority from Congress to conduct “more advise-and-assist types of operations between our forces and the tier one Mexican forces,” which are that country’s special forces units.

The University of Minnesota graduate student currently detained pending deportation proceedings will be back in court later this week.

During a hearing at immigration court Tuesday, an attorney for Doğukan Günaydın, 28, asked the court to pause the removal proceedings in order to hold another hearing to address new charges filed by the Department of Homeland Security. Those charges are not yet publicly available.

Attorney Hannah Brown said she expects Günaydın will testify during the hearing scheduled for Friday morning. Another hearing in Günaydın’s case is scheduled for next week.

Günaydın appeared remotely from Sherburne County jail, wearing an orange jail uniform.

Brown had asked Judge Sarah Mazzie to close Tuesday’s proceedings to the public. She said Günaydın’s case has received a lot of public attention and she was concerned for his privacy and safety. Judge Mazzie denied that request.

Günaydın, who is from Turkey, was arrested by ICE late last month and his student visa was revoked. He sued the government, alleging ICE violated his constitutional rights, for among other things, arresting him before DHS terminated his permission to remain in the U.S.

DHS argues that Günaydın should be deported because of a June 2023 drunken driving arrest. Günaydın pleaded guilty to gross misdemeanor DWI in March 2024.

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A St. Paul man was sentenced to 22 years in prison Tuesday for shooting into a car his girlfriend was riding in and killing the 21-year-old man who was driving.

Martavious Roby-English, 21, pleaded guilty Feb. 13 to second-degree unintentional murder in the May 30 killing of Toumai Gaynor in the 800 block of Simcoe Street, off Atwater Street.

Martavious Roby-English (Courtesy of the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office)

Roby-English was originally charged with intentional murder. He entered the guilty plea after reaching an agreement with the prosecution that included the lesser murder charge and the length of the prison term handed down Tuesday. An attempted murder charge was dismissed, and he was given credit for 310 days already served in custody.

Just over a month before the murder, Roby-English was released from prison and into supervision after serving time for two shootings in St. Paul.

According to the criminal complaint, St. Paul officers responded to the May 30 shooting at 2:28 a.m. and found Gaynor, of St. Paul, slumped over in the driver’s seat of a Toyota Camry. He had gunshot wounds to his head, hip and arm, and died at Regions Hospital about 11:15 a.m.

Officers found five 9mm shell casings around the Camry and a .45-caliber Glock firearm with blood on it and an extended magazine inserted in it directly behind the car. A spent casing was on the Camry’s dashboard.

An 18-year-old woman told police that Gaynor was her friend and he was driving her Camry. They’d gone to Simcoe Street to see if he could stay with friends and, when he couldn’t, he asked her to take him to another location. They sat in the car and talked. Then, as he was trying to make a U-turn, a man ran up to the car and started shooting.

The woman told police she ducked down in shock and told Gaynor to drive, but he didn’t move. The shooter pulled the woman from the Camry and she realized it was Roby-English. He told her he acted in self-defense because Gaynor fired first, the complaint says. She ran and called 911.

She told police she had thrown Gaynor’s gun behind the car because she thought he “was going to live and she didn’t want him to get in trouble for having a gun,” the complaint says. “The gun was hot when she touched it, so she realized it had been fired.”

She said she’d been in a relationship with Roby-English for three years and they continued to communicate while he was incarcerated.

A search of the woman’s cellphone revealed Roby-English had sent her several texts right before the shooting, the complaint says. At 1:41 a.m., he wrote, “Don’t make me walk ova there and shoot that (expletive) up.”

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