Two men face felony charges after they allegedly fired shots near Wilder Recreation Center on Saint Paul’s East Side, sending bullets into a nearby home and garage.
The shooting happened around 7:05 p.m. on Saturday, May 2.
Ladarrius Lavon Grandberry, 18, and Tyler Lashun Payne, 19, each face two felony counts of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon and reckless discharge of a firearm within a municipality, according to criminal complaints filed in Ramsey County District Court.
Police responded to reports of shots fired at the intersection of Sims Avenue and Greenbrier Street, the complaints say. While on scene, officers heard two volleys of shots fired to the west and multiple additional calls came in reporting shots fired.
Officers drove to the area of Payne Avenue and York Avenue, where they saw several people running southbound on Payne Avenue from Sims Avenue. Police chased and detained Grandberry, finding a magazine in the left pocket of his zip-up sweatshirt and a handgun near his feet. Grandberry kicked the handgun toward the fence, according to the complaint.
The firearm didn’t have a visible serial number and officers observed a malfunction where the spent casing was backwards in the chamber.…
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