Apple Valley Man Charged With Shooting 1 Man, Assaulting Another

An man has been charged with shooting a Brooklyn Center man in the back last week and hitting another in the head with a gun before leading police on a high-speed chase.

Deonte Gracias Anderson, 27, is charged with three felonies in the May 15 incident: first-degree assault causing great bodily harm, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $30,000 fine; second-degree assault with a firearm, which has a maximum penalty of seven years in prison and a $14,000 fine; and fleeing a peace officer in a motor vehicle, which carries a maximum penalty of three years in prison and a $5,000 fine.

Anderson remains in the Hennepin County Jail on a $150,000 bond. An omnibus hearing in his case is scheduled June 13 in Hennepin County District Court.

According to the criminal complaint, signed by Brooklyn Center Police Officer Charles Valleau, police were called to a shooting at an apartment building on May 15.

Outside the building, officers found a man with a gunshot wound to his back, the complaint says. The man was taken to a hospital.

Police spoke to a woman inside, who told them that Anderson, her sister’s ex-boyfriend, had called her sister earlier in the evening and said he was coming over. The woman told police her sister and Anderson had a history of domestic violence incidents, according to the complaint

The complaints says that shortly afterward the woman saw Anderson walking down the hallway toward the apartment, holding a handgun equipped with a scope, she told police.

She ran into the apartment, and Anderson followed her inside, where he went into the back bedroom and allegedly struck a man in the head with the gun. The woman said she helped that man out of the room, leaving another man alone in the room with Anderson, according to the complaint.

After she and the first man had left the bedroom, she told police, she heard a single gunshot and saw the second man run out of the apartment, bleeding, followed by Anderson.

Police saw Anderson’s car and began to pursue. As they caught up to it, the female driver pulled over and got out of the car, and Anderson slid over into the driver’s seat and sped away, the complaint says.

Police turned on their lights and sirens and chased Anderson several miles before he crashed the car, leaped out and ran, according to the complaint. Officers arrested Anderson on a nearby rooftop.

The gunshot victim suffered a collapsed lung from the shot, which entered his upper back and exited his upper chest, according to the complaint.