Police: Cousins’ deaths in Dayton’s Bluff neighborhood believed to be murder-suicide
St. Paul police investigate an incident on East Minnehaha Avenue on the morning of Tuesday, April 18, 2023. (Credit: Nate Bergeson/KSTP)
St. Paul police say the deaths of two people at an apartment complex this week are now being investigated as a murder-suicide.
Police were called to Minnehaha Apartments at 5:43 a.m. Tuesday on a report of a shooting, police said. There, officers found an injured woman inside an apartment and a man outside. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.
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Thursday, police identified them as 27-year-old Tracey Loving and 18-year-old Jonathan Evans, saying they’re cousins.
Additionally, the department says evidence suggests that Evans shot Loving, then took his own life.
However, the investigation remains active.