A 46-year-old man reported he was shot in the leg while struggling with a robber Sunday in St. Paul. Officers received several calls about shots-fired shortly after 1 a.m. in the Payne-Phalen area.…
A 46-year-old man reported he was shot in the leg while struggling with a robber Sunday in St. Paul.
Officers received several calls about shots-fired shortly after 1 a.m. in the Payne-Phalen area. They found a man with a non-life-threatening injury in the area of Frank Street and Lawson Avenue.
The man said he arrived home, exited the passenger side of a vehicle and was confronted by a man who pointed a gun at him and demanded his belongings, said Sgt. Mike Ernster, a St. Paul police spokesman.
A woman with the gunman began going through the man’s pockets, but he tried to stop her “and a physical altercation began,” Ernster said.
The gunman fired twice, striking the man once in the leg. The man ran to his residence and didn’t see where the suspects went, and police were not able to find them, Ernster said. They didn’t get away with any of the man’s possessions.
Paramedics took the man to the hospital.
The man with the gun is described as a light-skinned black or Hispanic male, 5 feet 9 inches tall, 140 pounds and about 30 years old. He was wearing a baseball cap and a gray and white T-shirt with a possible stripe on the upper left portion of the shirt. The woman with him was described as white, 5 feet 6 inches tall, about 34 years old and wearing a jacket of unknown color. Related Articles
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