Police in St. Paul found 29-year-old Shaniya Thompson dead of a gunshot wound to the head inside her apartment on the 500 block of Broadway Street in the Dayton’s Bluff neighborhood on December 12, 2025. Officers were dispatched around 4:15 p.m. after a family member expressed concern for her safety. Investigators believe the shooting occurred the previous day, December 11, during a visit by the father of her children. A firearm was recovered at the scene and an investigation opened.

Court documents identify 33-year-old Wesley Koboi as having arrived at the apartment to celebrate one of the children’s birthdays. Witnesses and the children reported an argument between Koboi and Thompson, after which Koboi allegedly ordered the five children into a bedroom; the children then heard a scream and a loud thud. Koboi reportedly drove the children about eight hours to his mother’s home in Grand Rapids, Michigan, then continued on without saying where he was going.

A multijurisdictional manhunt tracked Koboi into Canada; he was arrested at Toronto Pearson International Airport on December 16, 2025, after crossing the Blue Water Bridge near Port Huron on foot and booking a flight to Mexico. He is being held pending extradition to Minnesota and has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder in connection with Thompson’s death.

If anyone has information about Shaniya’s last day or the visit on December 11, please come forward.