On September 17, 2024, at about 12:20 a.m., 32-year-old Lul Dak Chak of Ames, Iowa, was fatally shot in the parking lot behind the Twelve22 Apartments along University Avenue West near North Griggs Street in St. Paul. Chak had been out bowling with friends for a birthday earlier that evening. Witnesses and surveillance footage show Chak was outside the building with his cousin and a friend when two men got out of a Subaru Outback and began shooting. The shooters fired nearly 20 rounds; Chak was struck nine times in the upper body, neck, and face. One of the suspects then approached Chak’s body and fired additional rounds at close range. Police described the incident as a targeted and executed attack; surveillance showed the Subaru circulating in the lot for about 20 minutes beforehand.

On September 20, 2024, prosecutors charged 22-year-old Kueth Chuol Ngut of Minneapolis with two counts of second-degree murder; officers arrested him at his girlfriend’s apartment and recovered a handgun matching casings from the scene. The motive remains unclear, and authorities have not said whether a second shooter has been located. If anyone knew Lul Dak Chak or has information about the shooting, please come forward to investigators.