Rico Ronondo Rodriguez, 43, was shot and killed inside a north Minneapolis apartment on the night of January 9, 2025. Officers responding to reports of gunfire around 10:30 p.m. found Rodriguez inside a residence on the 1100 block of James Avenue North; he was pronounced dead at the scene. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide from a gunshot wound to the chest.

A woman at the scene, who identified herself as Rodriguez’s girlfriend, told police her daughter’s boyfriend shot him after an argument that began outside the apartment; she said the suspect struck Rodriguez in the neck. Investigators recovered a 9-millimeter casing and blood inside and outside the apartment. Several children were reportedly upstairs but unharmed. Court documents allege the dispute grew out of an unpaid debt connected to the suspect’s sister.

A 20-year-old man, Marvel Galvaston Williams, III, of Brooklyn Park, was charged with second-degree murder and held on $1 million bail. Does anyone have information about the events that night or about Rodriguez’s movements earlier that day?