Drew Johnson was a 35-year-old man from Saint Paul, Minnesota, who worked in concrete and waterproofing and attended Champlin Park High School and Mankato University. In the early hours of Monday, December 11, 2023, an intruder identified by name as Drew Johnson arrived at a home on the 1300 block of Englewood Avenue in Saint Paul’s Hamline-Midway neighborhood. A woman at the residence called 911 at about 1:45 a.m., and during that call a male resident told dispatchers he had fired multiple shots and that someone was down on the front porch. A second 911 call followed in which a male caller said he was dying before the line went silent.

Officers found Johnson on the front porch with multiple gunshot wounds; he was taken to Regions Hospital and died hours later. The Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office listed gunshot wounds as the cause of death. Investigators brought a 29-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman from the home in for questioning; both declined to be interviewed and were booked on suspicion of second-degree murder but were released the next day without charges pending further investigation. As of December 2023 the investigation was ongoing and the case remained unsolved.

Did anyone in the Hamline-Midway area see or hear anything that night that might help piece together what happened?