Minneapolis police identify the 2 men fatally shot in a Loring Park apartment building during ambush

Officials on Monday identified the two men who were fatally shot in a Loring Park apartment during an ambush allegedly by a fellow building resident.

Gregory Scarver, 42, and Prince Jhun Nebres, 43, were killed on Sept. 27 in Loring Towers at 15 E. Grant St., according to police records released to the Minnesota Star Tribune.

Robert Cardell Warren, 51, stands charged in Hennepin County District Court with two counts each of second-degree murder and illegal gun possession in connection with the shooting. Warren remains jailed in lieu of $5 million bail ahead of an Oct. 27 court appearance.

Court records in Minnesota show that Warren’s criminal history, which includes two convictions for assault, prevents him from possessing a gun.

According to the criminal complaint:

Police were alerted about 1:50 p.m. to fighting in the apartment building and then that shots had been fired.

Officers arrived and were directed by witnesses to Warren, who was standing in a doorway. He went to the floor without being ordered by police, who confirmed his identity. The officers found a small knife and shotgun shells in his pants pocket. Officers saw a case for a long gun in Warren’s second-floor apartment.

Someone who reported the shooting to police told officers that Warren and one of his victims were in a fight in the building’s entryway. The witness said he separated the two and heard gunfire while calling 911.

Apartment surveillance video shows that as the two men exited a second-floor elevator, Warren “ambushed them from behind with his shotgun drawn and trained upon them,” the charges read. “[One victim] immediately retreated into the open elevator he had just departed. [Warren] stood outside the elevator car and fired one shot into [the victim’s] neck.”