Charges: Man Shot Neighbor's Boyfriend In A 'Rage'
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- A St. Paul man is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of another man on Monday evening.
The incident happened on the 1500 block of Ames Avenue in St. Paul just after 6 p.m. Police responded to find a number of people on the front porch of a residence, including one whose shirt was soaked in blood.
He died at the scene of gunshot wounds. He has not yet been identified.
According to a criminal complaint filed Wednesdya, Lepierre Cortia Carpenter, 24, was sitting on the curb nearby and surrendered himself to officers, putting his hands in the air above his head.
"I let my rage get the best of me," he said, according to the charges. "How much time do you think I'm looking at for something like this?"
Carpenter and the victim's girlfriend were next-door neighbors, but the victim's girlfriend said that she did not have many interactions with Carpenter. She didn't know why Carpenter would have shot her boyfriend.
The charges state immediately after the shooting, she asked Carpenter why he did it, and he replied "That's what he gets for talking s---."
Carpenter's sister told police that she "tried to stop him," and that she believed the neighbors had been harassing her brother over drugs, but said that didn't "give him the right to do what he did."
The Ramsey County Medical Examiner said that it appeared the victim had been ducking and turning in a defensive posture when he was shot.
If convicted, Carpenter faces up to 40 years in prison.
