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Murder charges filed against a 17-year-old are revealing more details about the SWAT team raid that resulted in the death of Amir Locke, at the hands of police.
The teen, who is from Minneapolis, was charged in Ramsey County District Court Tuesday with two counts of second-degree murder. Prosecutors allege in a juvenile petition filed Tuesday that he fatally shot Otis Elder during a drug transaction the evening of Jan. 10.
St. Paul police officers had arrived to the scene on Prior Avenue to find the 38-year-old with a gunshot wound. He was taken to Regions Hospital and pronounced dead about 30 minutes later.
This teen suspect, according to the petition, is the cousin of Amir Locke, the 22-year-old shot and killed by a Minneapolis Police Department SWAT team in a Bolero Flats apartment on Feb. 2. Locke had been sleeping on the couch in the living room of one of the three apartment units targeted by search warrants early that morning. Read more.
