St. Paul’s police are looking for the suspect in a Saturday afternoon shooting that left three people dead, including a teenager.
The police were responding to a call about an unknown medical situation when they found the victims. Two of the victims – a woman in her 30s and a girl in her early teens – were pronounced dead at the scene, while the 8-12-year-old boy was transported to a local hospital, where he died of injuries a few hours later.
St. Paul police said a shooting in the city’s Payne-Phalen neighborhood left three people dead on Saturday afternoon.
(São Paulo Police Department)
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The circumstances surrounding the shooting are not clear at the moment, but a police officer conducted a welfare check at the residence just an hour before the shooting, according to St. Paul’s police spokesman, Sgt. Mike Ernster
“He was called here by a concerned family member from outside the state who wanted us to check on the alleged victim’s well-being in this house. Our officer came here, he spoke to her at the door and explained why he was there,” Sgt. Ernster told reporters on Saturday night. “She looked at him and said, ‘I’m fine, tell them I’m fine.'”
Police said they believed the woman who interacted with the police earlier in the day was the woman in her 30s who died. They had done another welfare check in the same residence before Saturday.
“We had already been here on a similar call, a pension check,” the sergeant. Ernster said. “They were just [concerned about] her well-being, that she could be in danger, that kind of connection, possibly involved a domestic situation. “
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Saint Paul’s police chief, Todd Axtell, called the shooting “a senseless tragedy that left us heartbroken.”
“Investigators and police will continue to work non-stop until they find the person responsible,” he said.