Davion Lamonte Paule Brown was 22 when he was shot and killed on the afternoon of September 10, 2024, outside a tobacco shop in a strip mall on the 1300 block of Maryland Avenue East in Saint Paul, near Lake Phalen. Surveillance footage showed a teenager arrive on a bicycle, dismount, and approach Brown. Witnesses described a brief argument that one said involved a woman, and another said Brown had bought a pack of cigars for the teenager because the teenager lacked ID. The teenager then opened fire, continued shooting after Brown fell, and fled on the bicycle.

Police arrived about 12:30 p.m. and found Brown in the store entryway with multiple gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene. Officers located and arrested the fleeing suspect less than a mile away after a short foot chase and recovered a 9mm handgun and a black mask along the route. The suspect was identified as 16-year-old Knyaw Taw of St. Paul and was charged with second-degree intentional murder; prosecutors announced they would seek to try him as an adult. Was anyone who was at the strip mall that day able to see more of the encounter or recognize the teenager on the bicycle?