St. Paul police used surveillance video to track down a 26-year-old man who fled south after shooting up a vehicle on the city's East Side last month, killing one man and wounding another, according to recently unsealed murder charges.
U.S. marshals arrested Duane R. Whitson in Dallas on Dec. 5 and extradited him back to Minnesota, where he remains jailed in Ramsey County on charges of second-degree murder and second-degree attempted murder in connection with the slaying of 25-year-old Anthony Martin. Bail was set Monday at $1 million.
According to the criminal complaint:
Gunfire erupted on E. Maryland Avenue and Hazelwood Street, behind the Roosevelt Homes complex, around 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 2.
Responding officers found Martin lying facedown on a sidewalk with a gunshot wound to the chest. Seven 9mm bullet casings were scattered across the ground, along with a plastic bag and small scale, charges say.
Martin was taken to Regions Hospital, where he later died.
Nearby, another man was slumped over the driver's seat of a Dodge Charger with injuries to his torso, face and arm. He appeared to have crashed the bullet-riddled car into a row of parked vehicles after being shot.
That man, a 24-year-old friend of Martin's, later regained consciousness at the hospital and told authorities that the shooter had approached their car and tried to force open the back door while repeatedly asking "Where's Lord?"
