The gunman who shot seven people this week, killing one, circled his victims in a car, got out and sprayed the sidewalk with deadly gunfire that also wounded several others, according to charges filed Friday against two accomplices.
Tiffany Lynn Marie Martindale, 30, listed as homeless, and Ryan Timothy Quinn, 33, of Bloomington were each charged in Hennepin County District Court with aiding an offender to avoid arrest in connection with the shooting midday Tuesday near E. Lake Street that killed Gregory Doyle Sweeten, 35, of Minneapolis.
Tuesday’s shooting unfolded about 1:30 p.m. on a sidewalk in the 2900 block of Clinton Avenue S. across the street from Cristo Rey Jesuit High School. In addition to Sweeten’s killing, five men and one woman were also wounded, Police Chief Brian O’Hara said. Three were hospitalized in critical condition, but all are expected to survive, the chief said.
O’Hara said at least one person in the group was targeted.
As for the shooter, the criminal complaints identified him only as “Bino.” The County Attorney’s Office said late Friday afternoon that it so far has no case brought by police for consideration of charges stemming from the killing. Also, police have announced no additional arrests.
Martindale and Quinn both remain jailed in lieu of $250,000 bail ahead of court appearances Tuesday. Court records do not list an attorney for either of them.
This shooting was followed one day later by another mass shooting in the city at Annunciation Church and School, where gunfire from 23-year-old Robin Westman killed two students and wounded 19 others attending Mass. Westman then died by suicide.
O’Hara described the gun used in the Tuesday shooting as a “weapon of war” that inflicted “unspeakable” injuries on the victims.
