Arrest made in fatal St. Paul park shooting
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Updated 1 p.m. | Posted 6:44 a.m.
St. Paul police have made an arrest in a Sunday shooting at a park that left one man dead and another injured.
A 24-year-old Minneapolis man has been booked on suspicion of homicide, police spokesperson Steve Linders said Monday.
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Officers encountered about 300 people as they arrived at Indian Mounds Regional Park Sunday night in what Linders described as a chaotic scene.
Police were called to the park on reports of a group of people fighting and shots fired. They found a man on the ground suffering from gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Linders said another man hit by gunfire was treated at Regions Hospital and released. Investigators are trying to piece together the events that led up to the shooting.
MPR News reporter Riham Feshir contributed to this report.