Law enforcement has captured in Texas a co-defendant in the fatal drive-by shooting of a woman 2½ months ago in north Minneapolis.
Derrick Lamond Johnson Sr., 51, of Minneapolis, was chased down on foot by officers in Houston and arrested last week in connection with the death on Aug. 9 of 34-year-old Stevi Rae Palacio, of Minneapolis, near Thomas and Oak Park avenues N.
A Hennepin County sheriff's sergeant partnered with the FBI in Texas to track down Johnson, the Sheriff's Office said Tuesday.
Johnson remains held in the Harris County jail pending his return to Minnesota. Minneapolis police say he was the getaway driver for 26-year-old Tremaine M. Bucholz of Dent, Minn.
Bucholz was charged in Hennepin County District Court last month with second-degree murder and illegal weapons possession. He remains held in lieu of $600,000 bail ahead of a Nov. 14 court appearance.
According to the charges:
Reported gunfire shortly after midnight sent officers to the scene, where they found Palacio on the sidewalk shot in the back. She was taken by emergency responders to HCMC, where she was soon pronounced dead.
Police obtained video from a resident's doorbell camera, and it captured a cargo van stopping alongside Palacio before a gunshot from someone in the front passenger seat wounded her. Palacio started running, and the same person fired seven more shots, with one hitting her in the back.
