3/15/2026 On 3/15/2026 St. Paul Police responded to [ADDRESS REDACTED] in St. Paul, Ramsey County on a report of disorderly conduct. Two neighbors were having a civil dispute about snow in the shared driveway between 402 Hope and 396 Hope. Police arrived and determined that three females lived at 402 Hope; a mother and two daughters. Officers spoke to the mother who said she was shoveling snow in her driveway when her neighbor at 396 Hope, later identified as Douglas Scott KANE ([DOB REDACTED]), yelled at her for putting snow onto his side of the driveway and threatened to hit her.
Police spoke to KANE who said he was upset that the residents at 402 Hope shoveled their snow onto his side of the driveway. KANE also said that one the females at 402 Hope told him that their "baby daddy" would come and shoot him. Both parties agreed to stay separated and police left. 3/16/2026 The next day, on 03/16/2026, St. Paul Police responded to a 911 call from 396 Hope. The caller said that a neighbor was trying to hit her nephew with a shovel. A second 911 call then came in. This caller, from 402 Hope, said that a neighbor had pulled a gun on her and her sister.
Police responded and interviewed several family members at 402 Hope; AR, LW, JB and SH. They each told police that SH was shoveling snow off the driveway at 402 Hope into a barrier between 402 Hope and 396 Hope. KANE came out of 396 Hope and used a snow blower to blow the snow from his driveway at SH. They tried to stop him. AR said LW ran inside 402 Hope, returned with mace, and then sprayed KANE. LW said she sprayed KANE with pepper spray and then KANE took out the handgun and pointed it at them.
All said that KANE pulled a handgun out of his jacket. Police spoke to KANE. The skin above his eyes was slightly red and swollen but he did not have any visible injuries. KANE said he cleared the snow from his driveway, the neighbors were shoveling snow onto his driveway, so he went outside to blow it back onto their driveway. When he blew the snow directly at them, they tried to take the snowblower. They then tipped the snowblower over and one of them swung an orange bladed shovel overhead and struck him on the top left side of his head.
A different neighbor then hit him with a different shovel in the left side of his neck causing him to fall onto his back. While he was on his back one of the neighbors approached and sprayed him with bear mace. KANE said he stood up, drew his Springfield XD9 handgun, held it in the "low ready" position, and told them to get back. The neighbors all went back into 402 Hope and KANE brought the gun back into his residence and left it there. When he went back outside, one of the neighbors said "I got something for you, white boy," and sprayed him with bear mace again.
During a follow-up phone interview, KANE said he still had a lump on the right side of his head. He wanted restraining orders against the neighbors and wanted to press charges for their assault with shovels and mace. 3/18/2026 On 3/18/26 at about 1445 hours, St. Paul Police were dispatched to 402 Hope on a report of shots fired. 2 ••-CR-••-•••• Filed in District Court State of Minnesota 3/20/2026 The caller said someone shot through their car window. While police were en route, 911 received a related call from 396 Hope.
