A teenager has been ordered to stand trial as an adult for his alleged role in a fatal shooting inside the Mall of America in December last year. Lavon Sema-J Longstreet, now 18, faces 2nd-degree murder and 2nd-degree assault charges after the fatal shooting Dec. 23. He was 17 years old at the time.

Woodbury police were called to a residence on Sunbury Alcove on March 27 around noon for a report of a man found not breathing. Officers arrived and found the 22-year-old deceased in the basement bedroom. According to the Ramsey County Medical Examiner, the man’s cause of death was said to be fentanyl toxicity.

The State Patrol responded to the crash around 11:30 a.m. Troopers say 37-year-old Bryan Adam Schreiner, of Lauderdale, was traveling southbound on Interstate 35 before driving onto the right shoulder, overcorrecting and sliding sideways before entering the median ditch, causing the vehicle to roll.

Minneapolis police say one man is dead and another man suffering serious injuries after crashing a stolen motorcycle near the intersection of Hiawatha Ave. & E. 26th St. around 1:45 a.m., Tuesday morning. Police say their preliminary investigation shows that the motorcyclist was traveling westbound on E. 26th St., crossing Hiawatha when he went through a red light and struck another vehicle in the intersection.

Three people are facing charges after fleeing police through multiple counties in a stolen vehicle and crashing into another driver in Shakopee. A Chaska police officer was on routine patrol around 8:45 p.m. Tuesday, April 25, and driving an unmarked police cruiser on Hwy. 41.

Saint Paul police are investigating a homicide after a man was found fatally shot early this morning on the 2300 block of Chilcombe Ave., in the city’s Saint Anthony Park neighborhood. Just before 7:30 a.m. Saturday, a 911 caller reported that their neighbor had been shot and was in their front yard. Multiple 911 callers also reported hearing the gunfire.

A Plymouth man has been indicted on one count of arson and one count of damage to religious property in relation to two fires set in south Minneapolis mosques. According to court documents, on April 23 around 7 p.m., Jackie Rahm Little, 36, started a fire in the bathroom of the Masjid Omar Islamic Center.

The Coon Rapids Police Department says a 25-year-old man is dead after witnesses say he ran a red light and was struck by a vehicle Thursday evening. Police were called to the intersection of Northdale Boulevard Northwest and Round Lake Boulevard Northwest just before 8:00 p.m. Thursday evening. Officers arrived and found bystanders providing CPR to the motorcyclist.

A New Auburn man faces multiple felony charges after allegedly holding a Lake Elmo woman against her will while physically and sexually assaulting her for over 24 hours. David Powers, 35, is charged with 1st-degree criminal sexual conduct, kidnapping and domestic assault by strangulation, all felonies.

Nicolas Aron-Jones was arrested, taken to the Carlton County Jail and booked on suspicion of 2nd- and 4th-degree assault. The 59-year-old male staff member was airlifted to a hospital with injuries, reportedly beaten in the head with a metal object that had been wrapped in a pillowcase.

A New Hope man is charged with 2nd-degree murder after allegedly stabbing a man in the parking lot of a Brooklyn Center apartment building earlier this week, killing him. Police spoke to the victim’s sister, who said that her child’s father, Demetrius Lamar Harris, 28, had come over to her apartment that evening.

Ramsey County prosecutors have charged a 19-year-old man with three felony counts of criminal vehicular operation causing substantial bodily harm after he was allegedly speeding down Virginia Street last Sunday, struck a building and another vehicle. The suspect, Dung Dinh Pham, also faces a gross misdemeanor charge of criminal vehicular operation causing bodily harm.

Federal indictments unsealed today detail a wide-ranging investigation and charges against 45 alleged members of two Minneapolis-based street gangs. The two indictments target members of the “Highs” and the “Bloods” gangs and allege racketeering conspiracy involving murder, attempted murder, robbery, obstruction of justice and drug trafficking.

A man and woman who earlier pleaded guilty to 2nd-degree murder have both now been sentenced to more than 30 years in prison for their roles in a Dakota County homicide. Fotini Anest West, 26, and Logan David Slack, 25, were ordered to serve 367 months in prison in connection with the September 2022 shooting death of Michael Chang-Beom Lee, 43.

Minneapolis police say a man in his 30s is dead after an apparent shooting near the 700 block of Quincy St. NE. Police were called to the area on Tuesday around 8:40 a.m. on a report of a person not breathing. Officers arrived and found the male victim, deceased from an apparent gunshot wound to the chest.

The Inver Grove Heights Police Department is mourning the loss of one of their own after an officer suffered a medical emergency on Friday, April 28 and died at the hospital on Sunday. According to a Facebook post by the department, Inver Grove Heights police and fire crews responded to the emergency on Friday, along with MHealth paramedics.

Newly released video shows suspects damaging a vehicle in Saint Paul including one wielding a golf club and another with a knife. Jesse Lee Underleiter and Nicholas Todd Spangler were seen around 3:10 p.m. on June 22nd, near Bennett’s Chop and Railhouse at 1305 Seventh Street West after a criminal damage to property report. The two men were observed damaging a vehicle in the area.

A man is charged with murder and malicious punishment of a child after allegedly causing the death of a 2-year-old and severe injuries to a 4-month-old at a Minneapolis home in May 2022. According to a criminal complaint filed earlier this week, police were called to a home on the 2400 block of Oakland Ave. in Minneapolis.

Federal agents shot and killed a suspect while attempting to serve an arrest warrant Thursday morning in a north Minneapolis neighborhood, authorities have confirmed. Around 6 a.m., a SWAT team involving FBI agents attempted to execute a high-risk warrant on the 3700 block of Dupont Ave. N., with the suspect initially refusing to exit the home.

The criminal complaint filed in Stearns County Court says that Israel Muyaya Madimba, 16, was at the YMCA in Saint Cloud on April 21 when he found car keys in a locker room. Madimba allegedly took the keys and then stole the vehicle from the parking lot.