Man arrested, charged for fatal shooting of man in St. Paul
Booking photo for Justice Glaspie Credit: Ramsey County Jail
Police say one person is now in custody for the death of a 23-year-old man in St. Paul.
According to police, 20-year-old Justice Glaspie was arrested Thursday for the death of David Isaac on Oct. 23, 2023.
As previously reported by 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS, police were called to the 400 block of South Clinton Avenue shortly after midnight that morning for a report of a person down on the ground and behind a home.
When officers arrived, they found Isaac, adding he had been shot.
Charging documents state that Snapchat videos showed Isaac and a group of other young men shooting a video on St. Paul’s West Side earlier in the night, and residents in the area told police they saw young men running around when they heard a gunshot. Glaspie was identified as one of the men in the video shoot, and several had bottles of liquor and guns.
Surveillance video shows that at one point in the night, Glaspie jumped on Isaac’s back, spinning him around before the video quit recording. That was where Isaac’s body was found.
Another of the men seen in the video told police that, “He just shot him, man,” before clarifying that Glaspie shot Isaac. The man added that he wasn’t sure why but thought Glaspie may have gotten upset when he and Isaac were play-fighting in one of the videos, saying that there were no other arguments or conversations before the shooting but Glaspie pushed Isaac in what appeared to be a playful manner for around seven seconds before the shooting.
Glaspie initially tried to blame the shooting on someone else but eventually admitted to shooting Isaac, the complaint states. He went on to claim that Isaac tried to rob him two months earlier and he was planning to rob Isaac that night but when Isaac tried to grab the gun, he shot him, saying he just “saw red.”
He added that he bought the gun from an unknown person a couple of months earlier for protection and then threw it in the Mississippi River.
Glaspie now faces a second-degree murder charge, would is punishable by up to 40 years in prison.