One person was killed and five others were wounded in separate shootings on St. Paul's East Side late Friday.
An unidentified man was fatally shot during an apparent confrontation in the area of Earl Street and Suburban Avenue, not far from Mounds Park in the Dayton's Bluff neighborhood, police said. He was found in the street about 8:20 p.m. by officers responding to calls of gunshots in the area, according to police spokesman Sgt. Mike Ernster. Paramedics arrived shortly afterward and tried to resuscitate the man, but he died at the scene, Ernster said.
In the ensuing hours, homicide detectives fanned out through the neighborhood to question potential witnesses and search for any surveillance cameras that may have captured the shooting, he said.
No one has been arrested, he said.
After an autopsy, authorities will release the man's identity.
His death is the city's 12th homicide this year.
Officers also responded to the 900 block of DeSoto Avenue about 10:30 p.m. Friday and found three men and a woman wounded by gunfire, police said. All four were taken to Regions Hospital, where one of the men was being treated for life-threatening injuries, police said. The others are expected to survive.
A fifth victim from that shooting, a man, showed up at an area hospital, where he was treated for a noncritical gunshot wound, Ernster said.
