Former St. Paul human rights director accused police of sabotaging oversight St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter joins Police Chief Todd Axtell in denying Jessica Kingston s allegations. October 11, 2018 11:13pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Jessica Kingston, the former St. Paul human rights director who received a $250,000 settlement from the city in exchange for leaving her job, said she repeatedly raised concerns that the police department was blocking investigations of officer misconduct.
In an interview Wednesday, Kingston said her concerns went unheeded and made her position intolerable, prompting her to file a complaint with the state Department of Human Rights and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Early morning shooting leaves two dead in Saint Paul’s Payne-Phalen neighborhood
Early morning gunfire on Saint Paul’s East Side and cascading 911 calls led officers to the corner of Payne Avenue and East North Street. That’s where they found two men suffering from apparent gunshot wounds both of whom later died at Regions Hospital.
The 911 calls started coming into the Ramsey County Emergency Communications Center at about 3:35 a.m. Officers were quickly dispatched to a house on the 500 block of Payne Avenue and found both victims lying on a North Street sidewalk.
Aid was rendered and St. Paul Fire medics were summoned. They transported both men to Regions, where one died shortly after arriving and another passed away about two hours later.
Josh Skluzacek Created: January 22, 2021 02:16 PM
Police have identified the two people killed in a shooting early Thursday morning in St. Paul.
According to the St. Paul Police Department, 21-year-old Alejandro Omar Rios and 39-year-old Michael William Stewart, both of St. Paul, died from the shooting.
Officers responded to reports of an incident near Payne Avenue and North Street at about 3:35 a.m. Thursday.
There, officers found Rios and Stewart suffering from apparent gunshot wounds. Police said the two were taken to a hospital where one died soon after arriving and the other died hours later.
No arrests in their deaths had been made as of Friday afternoon.
According to the St. Paul Police, the crash happened at around 3 a.m. on Jan. 7. An officer saw a stolen Ford Focus near the intersection of Franklin Street North and Phalen Boulevard and turned his vehicle to investigate when the suspect vehicle fled. Police said the officer didn t activate their vehicle s emergency lights or pursue the suspect s vehicle.
However, the officer followed the path of the vehicle and came along a crash involving the Ford Focus and a PT Cruiser on Minnehaha Avenue. The driver of the PT Cruiser was pronounced dead at the scene and a passenger was transported to the hospital. Two passengers in the Ford Focus were also taken to the hospital.
The 2-year-old boy shot and killed on Dec. 23 has been ID’d as Jayse Damir Wilson.
Earl Williams, 39, of St. Paul, turned himself in Christmas night, was arrested and charged with Manslaughter in connection with the death.
It’s the 34th homicide of the year. Saint Paul Police Department (@sppdmn) December 28, 2020
The 2-year-old boy, identified as Jayse Damir Wilson, was severely injured after he shot himself in the head in the early afternoon last Wednesday, CBS Minnesota reported.
Police officers and medics arrived at the apartment in St. Paul after someone dialed 911 reporting that a boy had “hurt his head,” according to CBS Minnesota. They found the boy with a gunshot wound on his forehead.