St. Paul police identify man fatally shot Saturday night

It was St. Paul's fourth homicide this year.

February 18, 2020 at 2:41AM

A man who was found shot to death at a residential St. Paul intersection late Saturday has been identified as 19-year-old Marcus Rashon Johnson.

Police identified Johnson, of St. Paul, in a tweet sent from the department's account on Monday evening. His killer remains on the loose.

Authorities were called to N. Kennard Street and Ross Avenue on St. Paul's East Side late Saturday night and saw Johnson down in the street.

Emergency responders declared him dead at the scene from a gunshot, according to police.

The killing was St. Paul's fourth homicide this year.

Libor Jany • 612-673-4064 Twitter: @StribJany

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Libor Jany is the Minneapolis crime reporter for the Star Tribune. He joined the newspaper in 2013, after stints in newsrooms in Connecticut, New Jersey, California and Mississippi. He spent his first year working out of the paper's Washington County bureau, focusing on transportation and education issues, before moving to the Dakota County team.

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