Roommate Charged With Murder in South St. Paul Shooting
Police tape outside a South St. Paul apartment building late Friday, April 11, 2025. MN CRIME PHOTO
A 36-year-old man is now charged after allegedly shooting and killing his roommate in their South St. Paul apartment Friday night.
The victim, Michael M. Schille. Via GoFundMe
Officers were dispatched at 8:48 p.m. on April 11 to a residence near Thompson Avenue and 12th Avenue North after the caller—later identified as 36-year-old Jacob John Audie—told dispatchers he just shot his roommate.
Audie remained on the line, told police the gun was on the couch and that his roommate was dead, court documents reveal.
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Responding officers located Audie standing in the parking lot near the west side of the building. He had his cell phone in his hand and was taken into custody without incident.
Inside the apartment, officers found a grim scene. A 72-year-old man, later identified as Michael Maurice Schille, was seated on a couch in the southwest bedroom with a gunshot wound to the left side of his face. A television remote was still in his hand and medics pronounced him dead at the scene.
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Evidence collected by officers and later processed by agents from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension included an AR-style rifle leaning against the living room couch with a live round next to it, a rifle magazine on the kitchen table, a second rifle magazine in the back bedroom and an empty carbine casing on the couch near the victim.
Audie allegedly told police he had lived with Schille for one to two years, helped care for him and maintain the apartment. He admitted to shooting Schille in the left cheek with Schille’s own AR-15 rifle, then unloading the gun and placing the magazine and round where officers later found them. Audie said he called 911 immediately afterward and told them what happened.
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The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office performed an autopsy, confirming Schille died from a gunshot wound to the head and the manner of death was ruled a homicide.
Schille’s adult children set up a GoFundMe fundraising site, writing that their father was a Navy veteran and was given an honorable discharge.
On Monday, April 14, Dakota County prosecutors filed a second-degree intentional murder charge against Audie, who is listed as originally from Hudson, Wisc. A judge set his bail at $1 million without conditions or $750,000 with conditions and his next court appearance is set for April 21.
From the scene in South St. Paul on Friday, April 11. MN CRIME VIDEO
