On December 28, 2021, 31-year-old Jarrell Kirk was shot and later died at Regions Hospital after being found on the sidewalk outside a duplex on the 500 block of Blair Avenue in Saint Paul’s Frogtown neighborhood. Kirk lived in the upper unit with his father and other family members; the downstairs neighbor was 34-year-old Brandis Junton Wells. A dispute involving a woman who had previously dated Kirk and was then seeing Wells reportedly escalated that evening.

According to reports, occupants of the lower unit shut off the electricity to Kirk’s apartment after a heated argument. Kirk, who held a permit to carry a firearm, went downstairs with a gun. The confrontation moved outside, where Wells shot Kirk. An autopsy recorded a gunshot wound to Kirk’s upper left arm that re-entered his torso as the cause of death, and noted multiple contusions on his head and face. Wells fled the scene but turned himself in to police several days later and was charged with second-degree murder.

Does anyone in Frogtown recall the duplex on Blair Avenue or have information about the incident that night?