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Teen rode bike up to St. Paul man, fired fatal shots
A 16-year-old with a criminal history was charged Friday with fatally shooting a man standing outside in St. Paul early in the afternoon and fleeing on a bicycle.
Knyaw Taw, of St. Paul, was charged in a juvenile petition filed in Ramsey County District Court with second-degree intentional murder in connection with the shooting Tuesday of Davion Lamonte-Paule Brown, 22, of St Paul, in the 1300 block of E. Maryland Avenue.
Taw remains in custody ahead of a court appearance later Friday. The County Attorney’s Office has indicated it will pursue having Taw prosecuted in adult court, where a conviction would mean a more severe sentence.
The criminal complaint did not offer a motive for the killing.
Taw has been arrested multiple times earlier in Ramsey County and had an active warrant for his arrest. The complaint included no details about his earlier alleged offenses.
According to the complaint:
Video surveillance showed Kaw, wearing a mask, riding a bicycle toward a parked SUV. Kaw got off the bike and exchanged words with people in the vehicle, then shot Brown, who is standing outside with others. Kaw continued shooting Brown after his victim fell to the pavement. He then fled the scene on the bicycle.
Officers arrived shortly before 12:30 p.m. and saw Brown suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Medics took him to Regions Hospital, where he died.
LAFAYETTE, Wis. — About 25 children and adults were injured Wednesday when a wagon carrying them overturned at a western Wisconsin apple orchard.
The children, parents and chaperones were on a field trip to the orchard in Lafayette when one of two wagons being pulled by a tractor turned sideways and rolled over, Chippewa County Sheriff Travis Hakes told reporters. Hakes said the tractor was traveling at a low speed when the wagon rolled over while going downhill.
Three people suffered critical injuries, while injuries to five others were considered serious. Authorities didn’t say how many of the injured were children.
The elementary school-age children attend a school in Eau Claire. Lafayette is northeast of Eau Claire.
After about five minutes and several warnings that students participating in the protest would be suspended,, the protesters exited Northrop and Cunningham continued her speech. They later gathered outside on the mall afterwards to shout, “Cunningham, you will see, Palestine will be free.”
Cunningham recounted the story of Norman Borlaug, the U alumnus and agronomist whose research in wheat saved millions from starvation, and said she would prioritize keeping a college education affordable for students.
Cunningham actually took over presidential duties on July 1, replacing Interim President Jeff Ettinger. She oversees a budget of more than $4 billion to run the university’s five campuses, which enrolled more than 68,000 students and employed 27,000 people during the last academic year.
She was chosen for the job last winter over two other candidates: Laura Bloomberg, president of Cleveland State University and former dean of the U’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs, and James Holloway, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of New Mexico. She is the U’s second woman president, following Joan Gabel who held the office from 2019 to 2023.
Cunningham will be paid more than $1 million per year — about $975,000 in base pay and an additional $120,000 in retirement contributions. The compensation puts her in the top quarter of Big Ten university presidents.
Sgt. Gordon Blackey, once a security guard to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, allegedly admitted to tracking the woman’s movements in her vehicle, according to a criminal complaint.
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