St. Paul medics responded to an apartment on the 800 block of Rice Street at 1:12 p.m. on Wednesday on a report of a child suffering a head injury. When they arrived, medics found the 2-year-old had been shot in the head. Eight minutes after the 911 call, the boy died.
According to a criminal complaint, the boy s mother told officers she received a frantic phone call from Williams, who was in her apartment, saying she needed to come home because the boy had shot himself in the head. Williams told the woman he d left a gun in the bathroom and the boy got to it, and that he was having one of her daughters call the police. When the woman called Williams back, Williams had left the apartment and then stopped answering future calls.
2-year-old killed in shooting in St. Paul on Wednesday
This is the first year that St. Paul has surpassed 200 people shot, according to the police department, and 28 of the homicides have been shootings.
Written By:
Mara H. Gottfried / St. Paul Pioneer Press | 5:10 pm, Dec. 23, 2020 ×
ST. PAUL Two days before Christmas, St. Paul marked a grim milestone when a 2-year-old was killed in a shooting in the city’s North End.
The homicide was the 34th of the year in St. Paul, tying the city’s record, which was set in 1992.
Officers were called to a Rice Street apartment between Winnipeg Avenue and Atwater Street shortly before 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.
2-year-old killed in shooting in St. Paul on Wednesday
This is the first year that St. Paul has surpassed 200 people shot, according to the police department, and 28 of the homicides have been shootings.
Written By:
Mara H. Gottfried / St. Paul Pioneer Press | 5:10 pm, Dec. 23, 2020 ×
ST. PAUL Two days before Christmas, St. Paul marked a grim milestone when a 2-year-old was killed in a shooting in the city’s North End.
The homicide was the 34th of the year in St. Paul, tying the city’s record, which was set in 1992.
Officers were called to a Rice Street apartment between Winnipeg Avenue and Atwater Street shortly before 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.
2-year-old killed in shooting in St. Paul on Wednesday
This is the first year that St. Paul has surpassed 200 people shot, according to the police department, and 28 of the homicides have been shootings.
Written By:
Mara H. Gottfried / St. Paul Pioneer Press | 5:10 pm, Dec. 23, 2020 ×
ST. PAUL Two days before Christmas, St. Paul marked a grim milestone when a 2-year-old was killed in a shooting in the city’s North End.
The homicide was the 34th of the year in St. Paul, tying the city’s record, which was set in 1992.
Officers were called to a Rice Street apartment between Winnipeg Avenue and Atwater Street shortly before 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.