The victim was walking with summers, without knowing they were “hunted” – twin cities

Before a The 24 -year -old was shot in the head In Saint Paul, he was walking with his summer – they were followed by two men, but they did not know they were “hunted”, according to the charges of murder this week.

Already a 24 -year -old Hemphill was left unconscious and did not breathe after the November 5 shooting and died at the hospital on November 15.

Thursday, the Swat team of Police St. The charges of murder against them were uncertain.

Hemphill was two summers when he was shot near University Avenue and Rice Street. A woman who was previously in a relationship with Terry reported that she was hanging with one of the younger brothers of Hemphill’s cousins, which made Terry Gelos. She said Terry praised himself about the killing of Hemphill on social networks, according to a criminal complaint.

The officers on the patrol heard three -four shooters fired around 4:55 pm on November 5. They saw a man running and the police found it. He said that he and his cousins ​​- Hemphill and another man – went to a convenience/tobacco store at Avenue University in Landel Street. They were walking to the east at the University Avenue for one of them to get money from an ATM on Rice Street, when someone shot it from behind, which caused him to run.

Hemphill’s other cousin signaled the officers and said that his cousin was shot and needs medical assistance. He said he didn’t see who the shooter was.

Hemphill was on the sidewalk of the Avenue University between Marion and Rice Streets and was taken by ambulance to the Regions Hospital. A surgeon told the police that “Hemphill’s case was one of the most serious,” the complaint said.

Hemphill fought for his life, according to a GoFundme for funeral expenses. He was the father of a 4 -month -old son, “who will now experience life without him,” said funds.

The surveillance video showed filming

The police found surveillance videos from the day before the filming that showed a man, whom investigators identified as Nelson, at University Avenue and Lexington Parkway. In videos of November 5 less than an hour before shooting, in the area where Hemphill was shot, the police saw a man wearing the same clothes as Nelson, but this time with a white mask that completely covered his face, the complaint said.

The police identified it on Terry in the surveillance video that showed them outside the convention store around 4:00 pm on November 5. Hemphill and his summer entered the store around 4:40 pm, Terry was inside the store and watched the window several times when they left, the video showed.

In the additional video, the shooter and Terry were seen running through a parking lot behind the cousins, at 4:54 pm, the shooter took on a firing position and Hemphill fell on the sidewalk.

On November 8, a man saw someone who entered the vehicle of his sister in Minneapolis, Minnehaha Avenue, between streets 35 and 36. The man ran to face the thief. A GMC land was up and a back passenger shot the man. The man turned the fire and the land left. The thief ran away.

Less than 20 minutes later, the land arrived at a hospital and threw a man with a shot wound that walked his head. The wounded man was identified as Terry.

The police searched the field and, in a backpack, found the identification of Nelson’s school. Also, in the vehicle was a white mask Michael Myers – the killer character in the “Halloween” movies that bears a mask – that matched with the mask worn by the shooter from St. Paul said the complaint.