A 19-year-old felon was charged Tuesday with the homicide of one of two men who died in a shootout Sunday at a north Minneapolis market where children were in harm's way.
The deaths came in a wave of gunfire that left four men dead in three days in the city.
Earlier Tuesday, Jamarius M. Shief, 18, of Minneapolis, and Samuel T. Abron-Yeager, 23, of Fridley, were identified by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office as the men who died from multiple gunshot wounds suffered at the Emerson Food Market in the 2600 block of Emerson Avenue N.
Shief died at the scene, and Abron-Yeager died less than two hours later at North Memorial Health Hospital, presumably shot by Shief, officials said. A third man suffered noncritical gunshot wounds.
Demerio D. Davis, 19, of Minneapolis, was found soon afterward two blocks from the store and charged with murder in connection with the death of Abron-Yeager.
Davis, who goes by several aliases, also was charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Prosecutors said they will seek an especially long sentence for Davis if he is convicted of murder, explaining in a statement that "numerous other community members, including children, were present in and around the store at the time of the shooting."
In a statement, the county attorney's office said "Abron-Yeager is suspected of having fatally shot Shief, although the investigation is continuing."
