A late-night shooting on February 2, 2025, left 17-year-old Layson Thomas Davis dead and another young man critically wounded inside an apartment building on the 200 block of 2nd Street Northeast in Saint Cloud, Minnesota. Officers who responded to reports of gunfire around 3:00 a.m. found Davis on a stairwell between the first and second floors with a fatal gunshot to the chest; he was pronounced dead at the scene. The second victim was located in a first-floor hallway with multiple gunshot wounds.

Investigators say the shooting was not random and that victims and suspects knew one another. Surveillance video reportedly captured a struggle over a handgun involving Davis, the other victim, and 19-year-old Bernard Bowens. The footage is said to show Bowens firing multiple shots after gaining control of a weapon, and a second shooter allegedly firing at the fleeing victim. Charges announced include second- and third-degree murder for Bernard Bowens; Quinton McNeal and Olivia Williams face counts including aiding and abetting first-degree robbery and theft of a firearm, with Williams also accused of driving Bowens away; Kevon Marquiose Washington was later charged with attempted second-degree murder and aiding and abetting aggravated first-degree robbery. Two 19-year-old suspects, a man and a woman, were arrested in the days after the shooting.