Gunfire wounded two men and sent bullets through apartment windows during a shooting near a Saint Paul dice game, according to charges. Officers responded around 9:15 p.m. Aug. 7 to the area of Maryland Avenue West and Arundel Street.
Jahquareye Terril Olson-Davis, 24, of Minneapolis, is charged with one felony count of possessing a firearm as a prohibited person. Prosecutors cite surveillance video and DNA evidence linking him to a man seen firing a gun and fleeing the area.
Officers found spent casings, blood trails, a damaged phone and white dice outside an apartment building. Bullets struck windows at three buildings, but no one inside was injured, the complaint says.
Surveillance video showed a man in a light-colored hoodie approaching a group before people scattered. A man in similar clothing ran around the building, and four muzzle flashes appeared as he ran east.
The shooter, who wore a hoodie with a heart design, carried what appeared to be a gun and jumped a chain-link fence. Officers collected blood from the fence.
Nearby officers found another wounded man in a white minivan at Maryland Avenue and Sylvan Street. The driver said she had stopped to help him after being flagged down. Officers applied a tourniquet before medics took him to a hospital.
That man said a passenger in a passing Dodge Journey opened fire while he was near the dice game. He described being shot, running across Maryland Avenue and being hit again, followed by an exchange of gunfire.
Olson-Davis arrived at Regions Hospital around 9:30 p.m. with a gunshot wound to his pelvis. He initially denied being near Maryland and Arundel and said he did not know where in the city he had been.
Investigators obtained video of a driver leaving Olson-Davis’s blue Chrysler 300 in clothing matching that of the man seen firing and fleeing. The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension also found that the DNA profile from the fence blood matched Olson-Davis, according to the complaint.
During interviews, Olson-Davis said he had been drinking heavily and did not remember the shooting. He later described greeting a man at the dice game and walking away.
He denied having a gun and said he had not seen who fired because it was dark. He acknowledged owning clothing with a large heart or star but did not think he wore that hoodie that night.
The complaint says a prior conviction for possessing a trigger activator prohibits Olson-Davis from possessing firearms.
