Four men wounded in a chaotic shootout outside a St. Paul market — a gun battle that sent a Chrysler careening across Earl Street and crashing into a Dairy Queen — were charged with felonies Wednesday.
Surveillance video captured the confrontation as it unfolded around 4:45 p.m. Monday outside Twins Market & Meat on Fourth Street E. in the Dayton’s Bluff neighborhood. A rapid burst of gunfire left all four men bleeding in different parts of the block.
Two of the men are now charged with attempted murder; the other two are charged with illegally possessing firearms.
According to the complaints filed in Ramsey County District Court:
A 2015 Chrysler 200 pulled directly in front of the convenience store. Eric Kapreece Richards, 21, got out and went inside while Kemarion Keith Thompson, 23, remained in the driver’s seat.
About 40 seconds later, a Chevy Trax parked behind them. An unidentified man in a blue jacket stepped out of the Trax and walked into the store ahead of 23-year-old Shataurus Orlando Dozier and his brother Donnavin Travonte Dozier, 22.
As Richards exited the store, the Dozier brothers approached the entrance. The video shows Richards suddenly spinning and firing a gun at Donnavin Dozier, who tried to run but limped as bullets were seen striking the snow behind him. Dozier retreated around the side of the building, and Richards kept firing in that direction as the man in the blue jacket ducked inside the store.
Thompson opened the Chrysler’s driver’s door and fired toward the store. Shataurus Dozier then “cracked opened the store’s door and repeatedly fired into the Chrysler’s passenger-side windows and doors as it drove from the parking lot.”
