Saint Cloud Man Killed in Lake Street Minneapolis Shooting Identified
The Minneapolis man who is accused of killing Ryan Kane Decker, 46, of Saint Cloud, remains jailed and charged with 2nd-degree murder.
The Saint Cloud man who was fatally shot outside a south Minneapolis gas station after allegedly using a racial slur during an argument has been identified by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner.
Ryan Kane Decker, 46, was shot just before midnight Wednesday, March 24, outside the Stop N Shop store at 1700 E. Lake St
Ryan Kane Decker, 46, was shot just before midnight Wednesday, March 24, outside the Stop N Shop store at 1700 E. Lake St. Officers found him lying in a pool of blood with a gunshot wound to the head and he died a short time later at the hospital.
The man who is accused of pulling the trigger, Chaz Eric Stubblefield, 33, of Minneapolis, remains jailed and charged with 2nd-degree murder.
According to documents filed in court, the men got into an argument inside the store after Decker allegedly brushed against Stubblefield while in line. A verbal argument ensued, which turned physical, with Stubblefield alleging that Decker called him the ‘n-word’ twice before Stubblefield shot the man, the documents say.
Decker was in town to help a friend move, she later told investigators, and they had stopped at the gas station for a soda that night. She said that Decker told Stubblefield that he never said the word. according to the documents.
Decker’s death is Minneapolis’ 16th homicide of 2021.