ST PAUL, Minn. — A Minneapolis man has been charged with murder after he allegedly killed a man in St. Paul.
Squads were called to the 1200 block of University Ave. W around 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday after a 911 caller reported hearing gunshots and seeing a person lying on the ground.
Responding officers found 32-year-old Lul Dak Chak unconscious and suffering multiple gunshot wounds, according to the charging document. Medics arrived on the scene and pronounced Chak deceased.
Witnesses of the shooting told police that two men exited a Subaru, shot Chak multiple times and then fled. One of the witnesses told police Chak said he was going to buy narcotics, according to the charging documents.
Surveillance video from the parking lot showed a Subaru moving around the lot multiple times before Chak approached the car. The footage allegedly shows the driver and passenger of the car exit, shoot Chak multiple times, walk closer to his body and then shoot him again, before leaving the lot.
"From the video it's apparent that LDC (Lul Dak Chak) was targeted and executed," the charging document states.
Investigators used surveillance video to track the car back to an apartment in Minneapolis, where the car's owner lived.
The woman who owned the car told police her boyfriend, 22-year-old Kueth Chuol Ngut, had taken her vehicle on the night of the shooting, according to charging documents. She also identified one of the men as Ngut after police showed her parking lot surveillance footage.
Officers executed a search warrant on the woman's apartment, where they found and arrested Ngut, and located a gun with ammunition that contained some identical headstamps to the casings that were found near the scene of Chak's shooting.
Ngut was allegedly hostile and dismissive when investigators attempted to interview him.
This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.
