On December 25, 2025, at approximately 10:52 P.M., Saint Paul Officers were discharged to the 700 block of Raymond Avenue, Saint Paul, County of Ramsey, on a call where the caller’s eighteen-year-old son-later identified as MEKHI ASANI HOLMES, [DOB REDACTED]- discharged a firearm inside their apartment, and the bullet went into the neighbor’s apartment. Officers arrived and were allowed inside apartment number 3XX by AT. HOLMES was found inside the apartment, and was arrested. HOLMEs told officers that the gun was in his room inside a box.
Inside apartment 3XX, a bullet hole was found in the bathroom mirror that went into the wall behind it. A bullet appeared to have gone into apartment 3X0. Officers breached the door of apartment 3X0 to determine if anyone was injured. No one was found inside apartment 3X0. AT said he arrived at the apartment. HOLMES told him he made a mistake. KW, HOLMES’s mother, said she was at work and received a call from her boyfriend, AT. AT advised her of the incident. She called 911. She called HOLMES, but he hung up on her.
Officers obtained a search warrant for apartment 3XX, and executed the search warrant. During the search, Officers found a handgun inside a box to the left of HOLMES’s bed. The firearm was loaded with a magazine in it, one round in the chamber. The firearm had a red metal piece on the back of the slide-a Glock Switch, used to make the firearm an automatic firearm. Officers also found a white Samsung cellphone charging on HOLMES’s bed. A black/dark gray Iphone was found on the floor just inside the front door.
Two Fed-Ex work identification cards in HOLMES’s name were found.
