On the evening of September 24, 2021, a domestic dispute in a Saint Paul apartment building on the 1200 block of Westminster Street ended with 44-year-old Royal Terrell Arrington Sr. found unresponsive in a hallway and pronounced dead from multiple gunshot wounds. Police arrived shortly before 7 p.m. after several 911 calls. Medics pronounced him dead at the scene.

Shortly after the shooting, Arrington’s 25-year-old son, who shares his name, arrived at a local hospital with gunshot wounds to his arm and cheek and required surgery. Investigators connected the younger man to the shooting; during questioning he gave conflicting statements but later admitted to shooting his father twice in the stomach. The medical examiner determined the elder Arrington had been shot eight times, a discrepancy the son did not explain.

The younger Arrington was charged with two counts of second-degree murder and held on $1 million bail. Does anyone have information about the family dispute or witnessed events at the apartment that night?