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Man charged with hanging out van window, fatally shooting a fleeing teenage driver in Minneapolis
A 19-year-old man already implicated in the shooting death of a teenager months ago in Fargo was charged Wednesday with unleashing gunfire from a van in a Minneapolis neighborhood and killing a teenager who was trying to outrace his pursuers.
Fabian Scott, of Minneapolis, was charged in Hennepin County District Court with three counts of second-degree murder in connection with the Jan. 13 shooting of Dwayne Scott Dzubay-Percy, 15, of Minneapolis. A warrant has been issued for his arrest and return from North Dakota to Minneapolis to answer the charges. Court records do not list an attorney for him.
Scott is currently in the Cass County jail and charged with murder stemming from a plot to rob a suspected drug dealer in May that ended with Scott’s accomplice, 16-year-old James Moore, being shot by the would-be robbery victim.
The charges involving Dzubay-Percy’s death noted that he “was the intended target, and the shooting was related to a gang and/or territory dispute.”
Dzubay-Percy was a freshman at Patrick Henry High School and was on the “A” honor roll, according to his online obituary.
“He held many trophies for football and basketball,” the obituary continued. “Dwayne took pride in his appearance and enjoyed looking his best! He was a member of Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and was a former grass dancer.”
According to the criminal complaint:
ShotSpotter alerted police to rounds of gunfire near the 3800 block of N. Dupont Avenue. Moments later, a stolen Kia Soul crashed into a snowbank two blocks north on Dupont, with a fatally wounded Dzubay-Percy behind the wheel.
A witness told police that she saw the Kia being chased by a speeding van with five occupants. The witness saw a man — later identified as Scott — hanging out of the van’s window behind the driver and shooting at the Kia.
Others in the van identified Scott as the shooter. Questioned by investigators while in custody in North Dakota, Scott admitted to shooting at the Kia.
The van’s driver, 19-year-old Shawn K. Goodloe, of Brooklyn Park, has been charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder. He remains jailed in lieu of $1 million bail.
Surveillance video revealed that both vehicles left a nearby gas station, with the van giving chase. Video from a park helped police determine that Goodloe was driving the van, which belonged to his aunt. Police went to his home and arrested him there.
St. Louis Park will soon require landlords to give renters more notice before they file for evictions over late payments.
The city currently requires landlords to give tenants notice seven days before they file for eviction. Starting in November, landlords will have to give 30 days notice and use a form prepared by the city.
“This is a tough ordinance,” Council Member Lynette Dumalag, the only person to vote against the change, said during a meeting this week. “At least for me, personally, I felt that it pit those that care about affordable housing against one another.”
In public hearings and other forums, city leaders heard from renters who said the current requirements didn’t give them enough time to scrape together payments if they face a sudden hardship, such as losing a job. They also heard from at least one landlord who said he might have to increase deposits because he already struggles to make ends meet when renters fall behind on payments.
The change passed 4 to 1. Council Member Tim Brausen and Mayor Nadia Mohamed were absent.
PARK RAPIDS, Minn. — Ryan Leckner has resigned as Mayor of Park Rapids and the city council has officially declared a vacancy.
City Administrator Angel Weasner said councilmembers will hold a workshop on Sept. 24 to determine how to proceed. They can fill the vacancy by appointment or hold a special election, which Leckner said seems unlikely given that the November general election is just around the corner.
Until then, Leckner said “we’re thinking that we’ll just be able to get by with just one less council member.”
He added that Councilmember Liz Stone would likely serve as acting mayor until voters hit the polls.
Former Park Rapids Mayor Pat Mikesh is running uncontested for Leckner’s now-vacant seat.
In 2018, Mikesh stepped down a month before the election and Leckner successfully ran as a write-in candidate.
Leckner first joined the council in 2015 and is ending his third, two-year term as mayor early because his family built a home outside city limits. Construction of the home in Henrietta Township, and the sale of his existing home in Park Rapids, all happened faster than expected, he said.
“My term was up in November anyways,” he said, “so I was kind of planning on just not running.”
In the 27 years since Rhode Island’s first charter school opened its doors, just one has closed. Segue Institute for Learning, a community charter in Central Falls, R.I., is among the state’s successes. It has an extraordinarily low student-to-teacher ratio of 4 to 1, even though it spends less than a typical Rhode Island school.
Part III
How Rhode Island’s charter schools succeeded where Minnesota’s failed
Each spring, Blackstone Valley Prep in Rhode Island hosts a loud, spirited and celebratory “college signing day” ceremony for its high school seniors. One by one, the teenagers step onstage to proudly announce their post-graduation plans. Many are the first in their family to seek a degree.
Rhode Island is the smallest state in the country, but it’s here — and not in Minnesota, the birthplace of the charter school movement — that this daring experiment in public school education is paying big dividends for students and their families.
Left In the 27 years since Rhode Island’s first charter school opened its doors, just one has closed. Segue Institute for Learning, a community charter in Central Falls, R.I., is among the state’s successes. It has an extraordinarily low student-to-teacher ratio of 4 to 1, even though it spends less than a typical Rhode Island school.
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Putin says NATO will be “in the war” if U.S. or allies let Ukraine fire long-range missiles at Russia
Apple’s AirPods Pro get FDA approval as hearing aids
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