Officials on Monday released the identities of the two men who fatally shot each other in the North End of St. Paul.
Officers responded to reports of gunfire at about 4:20 a.m. Friday on the 400 block of Front Avenue.
They found one man down in the street with multiple gunshot wounds to his upper torso, police spokesperson Nikki Muehlhausen said at a news conference.
Despite lifesaving efforts by officers, he was declared dead at the scene by Fire Department medics.
A second man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds later arrived at a fire station on Front Street, police said. He was taken to Regions Hospital, where he was declared dead a short time later.
On Monday, police said the Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the men as Lasean T. Williams, 28, of St. Louis Park, and Lawrence A. Harris, 30, of St. Paul.
Investigators were still working to determine what led to the shooting, Muehlhausen said. Early evidence suggests the men knew each other.
“What we can say right now, that we want to make very clear, is that this incident appears to be domestic in nature,” Muehlhausen said.
