St. Paul Police Chief Todd Axtell
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Police in St. Paul have made an arrest in a triple murder.
Chief Todd Axtell said a 26-year-old man who is a “person of interest” is in custody in the killings Saturday afternoon of a mother and her two children. Axtell said the man was arrested by police and a SWAT team while hiding in an apartment building.
Family members identified the victims as D’Zondria Wallace, who had moved to St. Paul just six months ago in search of a new life, her 14-year-old daughter La’Porsha and her 11-year-old son Ja’Corbie.
Slain mother and two kids had hoped for a new start in St. Paul A person of interest was arrested Sunday night. February 1, 2021 5:09am Text size Copy shortlink:
D Zondria Wallace dreamed of building a new life for her family in Minnesota. She never got the chance.
Less than six months after she had relocated to St. Paul, a gunman fatally shot Wallace and her two children inside their Payne-Phalen apartment. Police are investigating the slaying as a possible act of domestic violence and arrested a 26-year-old person of interest Sunday night. I can t stop crying. My babies are gone, her mother, Mary Wallace, said in a phone interview from her home in Memphis before the arrest was made. I need justice.