James Jeffrey King Sr., 57, was found shot in the head inside his pickup truck parked in the driveway of his North End Saint Paul home on the morning of February 9, 2022. Family members say he remained wounded in the vehicle for nine hours before discovery. He was taken to Regions Hospital in critical condition and died there on March 1, 2022 after nearly three weeks of medical care.

The Saint Paul Police Department investigated the shooting as a homicide and asked the community for tips. In April 2022, police arrested 27-year-old Kavion Jayvon Barnett of Saint Paul in connection with the fatal shooting; at that time formal charges in King’s death were pending and Barnett was also facing charges in a separate drive-by shooting that occurred days after King was attacked.

Does anyone in the North End remember seeing or hearing anything in the early hours of February 9 that could help investigators?