Woodbury Man Charged In Connection With Fatal Shooting

WOODBURY, MN — A Woodbury man was charged by warrant in connection with a fatal shooting in Saint Paul, according to a criminal complaint filed against him in Ramsey County District Court.

Kenwan Deshawn Hunter was charged with two counts of second degree murder and one count of illegally possessing a firearm, according to the complaint.

Hunter is believed to be in Las Vegas and has seven prior robbery felony convictions, according to the complaint. These felonies make it illegal for Hunter to possess firearms or ammunition.

At 12:50 a.m. on Aug. 16, officers were sent to Ted's Recreation in Saint Paul on report of a shooting, police said.

Officers found two Good Samaritans reaching into a vehicle in which the victim was lying with a gunshot wound on his right side, according to officials. The victim didn't have a pulse, didn't appear to be breathing and his partially-open eyes were unresponsive, police said.

The victim was pronounced dead at 1:02 a.m. after medics arrived and couldn't find a pulse, according to officials.

Officers saw bullet holes on the vehicle's passenger-side doors, police said. They recovered four 9mm casings inside the vehicle and another outside it, as well as 12 .45 caliber casings by the southwest corner of the bar, according to officials.

The victim's mother showed up at the scene while it was being processed and told officers she heard her son had been shot by two people named Tae Loc and Big Show-who was later identified as Hunter, police said. She said there was a video on social media of her son in a black Jaguar with Tae Loc on the night of his death, according to officials. Officers identified Tae Loc, who was associated with a woman who owns a black Jaguar, police said.

A witness told officers he had picked up the victim the previous day, and they drove to Minneapolis to buy marijuana, according to officials. The victim asked to be dropped off at the bar, police said.

When they got to the bar, the witness said he saw the victim approach Big Show and a man he didn't know, who were standing by a black Jaguar, according to officials. The witness drove off but returned to the bar when the victim called to ask for a ride home, police said.

When he returned to the bar, the witness said he found the victim at the bar with Big Show and the other man, officials said. The group went outside where the victim and unknown man fought, according to police.

The witness tried to intervene but the victim told him that he and the man were "blood cousins" and "real family," officials said. The man said he was Tae Loc from Selby- a 60's Crip, according to police. Both men told the witness not to intervene so he let them fight, officials said.

The two men fought, hugged, then fought again multiple times, before the victim got into the witness' vehicle, the witness told police. Tae Loc then said something to the victim that caused them to fight again and when the two men separated this time, the victim yelled to Big Show to give him his (expletive), according to officials.

The witness told police that the victim grabbed a gun from Big Show's car and got back into the witness' vehicle, officials said. The witness began backing up but somebody shot at his vehicle, he told police.

The witness ducked in the driver's seat after the vehicle stopped moving, but the victim yelled that he was hit and moved to the back seat, according to officials. The witness got out of the vehicle, saw Big Show standing towards the back of the parking lot, police said.

When he returned to check on the victim, the witness told police he saw Big Show in the parking lot again and ran away with the victim's gun, according to officials. The witness' girlfriend turned in the gun to police, officials said.

Officials identified Big Show to be Hunter, according to police.

Surveillance showed Hunter and the victim at a Speedway together before they returned to the bar, officials said.

After the shooting, Hunter spoke to an incarcerated man at Lino Lakes, who told him he knew about the victim being killed in Saint Paul and said news of the shooting was all over the prison, according to officials.