Deandree Trevelle Thomas

On order about April 2, 2026, officers with the Saint Paul Police Department were dispatched to an address on Minnehaha Avenue East in Saint Paul on a report of domestic assault. At the scene officers met with S. J. D., an adult woman fully identified in police reports, hereinafter “Victim.” Victim informed the officers that she had got into an argument early in the morning on April 1, 2026, with her boyfriend Deandree Trevelle Thomas [DOB REDACTED], hereinafter “Defendant,” at her apartment in South Saint Paul, which is within Dakota County.

Victim [NAME REDACTED] during the argument she determined that Defendant had been messaging a woman she understood to be his “baby momma,” and decided to leave the apartment and go stay with her mother. Victim [NAME REDACTED] had gone in the hallway of the apartment building where she lived in order to look through Defendant’s cellphone, and that when she came back inside to get clothing Defendant took back his own cellphone back, but also took her cellphone from her, as well as the key fob that allowed residents to get into the apartment building.

Victim reported that she left to go to her mother’s apartment, but could not get inside, and could not contact her because Defendant had her cell phone. She then returned to her apartment building after calling Defendant from a gas station. When Victim returned to the apartment building Defendant let her in and then followed closely behind as she went into her apartment. He then strangled her by squeezing both hands tightly around her throat. Victim reported that this caused her to struggle to breathe and that she begged Defendant to stop and believed he would kill her.

After Defendant stopped strangling Victim she reported having a coughing fit, as well as seeing blood when she spit into the bathroom sink. Victim reported that after Defendant strangled her, she went and laid down on her daughter’s bed as she was feeling lightheaded. After she had been laying in there for some time Defendant came in and questioned her about a piece of jewelry, he had purchased her. When Victim [NAME REDACTED] had thrown it away Defendant stood over her, pushed her onto her back, and strangled her for a second time.

Victim reported that Defendant applied a large amount of pressure downward on her throat while strangling her. 2 19HA-CR-26-482 Filed in District Court State of Minnesota 4/6/2026 Victim [NAME REDACTED] in her throat prevented her from being able to eat food the next morning and that she could not eat anything besides noodles the entire day. Officers could see scratches and marks around the circumference of her neck.